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1. Charles Roth MPC (encycl@vox.a2c3.co)'s status on Thursday, 27-Nov-2014 08:57:33 UTC Charles Roth MPC

   Flatland: A book I still think about 30 years on:
   #^A Guide to Flatland: What It’s Like to Live in Two Dimensions | WIRED http://www.wired.com/2014/11/geometry-of-flatland
   
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   Mathematician Ian Stewart wants us to see what he sees. Which is kind of a problem, because he’s accustomed to envisioning some pretty impossible shapes: snowflakes in fractional dimensions, hypercubes in 4-D, 11-dimensional superstrings. So when the University of Warwick professor and author writes about these freaky geometries, he relies on an analogy—a way for us blockheads to understand realities above, below, and in between our three dimensions. His guide is a little mathematical fantasy he read over half a century ago: the cult classic Flatland.
   
   Flatland is available free in the Roth Library as an epub.

   • Charles Roth MPC (encycl@vox.a2c3.co)'s status on Thursday, 27-Nov-2014 09:21:01 UTC Charles Roth MPC

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     Here is the Public Domain epub http://www.feedbooks.com/book/1596.epub