false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1174725100m/433567.jpg 433567 97 Unless you're a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life, these are the ones. Taken together, they form charmingly accessible explanations of geometry & physics for curious non-mathematicians. <i>Flatland</i>, also available under separate cover, was published in 1880 & imagines a two-dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes who think their planar world's all there is. One Flatlander, a Square, discovers the existence of a 3rd dimension & the limits of his world's assumptions about reality & comes to understand the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also a funny satire on Victorian society & class distinctions. The further mathematical fantasy, <i>Sphereland</i>, published 60 years later, revisits the world of Flatland in time to explore the mind-bending theories of Albert Einstein, whose work so completely altered the scientific understanding of space, time & matter. Among Einstein's many challenges to commonsense were the ideas of curved space, an expanding universe & the claim light doesn't travel in straight lines. Without use of the mathematical formulae that bar most non-scientists from an understanding of his theories, <i>Sphereland</i> gives laypersons ways to start comprehending these confusing fundamental questions of reality. 4243538 book 1880 Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions total:3145|5:872|4:1132|3:870|2:203|1:68| 3145 11972 4562 380 4 4 false false Tue Apr 15 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Thu Nov 29 10:24:36 -0800 2007 Tue Apr 15 17:28:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 4 false false Fri Oct 26 14:08:38 -0700 2007 Mon Mar 02 10:21:47 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 3 false false Fri May 16 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Mon Aug 20 17:13:55 -0700 2007 Fri May 16 18:38:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 2 false false Fri Jan 02 21:54:34 -0800 2009 Sat Jan 03 20:44:19 -0800 2009
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Flatland is about a square questioning society about a soc...more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Oct 20 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 14:34:16 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 20 14:47:01 -0700 2009 p.109. Regarding the King of Pointland, the Sphere states ...to be self-contented is to be vile and ignorant, and that to aspire is better than to be blindly and impotently happy.
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