false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1179023596m/866402.jpg 866402 2 <B>The Planiverse</B> is a classic book about life in a two-dimensional universe. A.K. Dewdney is a well-known author, and this is a well-known book, which is now brought back into print in a revised and updated edition. The book is written within the great tradition of Abbott's Flatland, and Hinton's famous Sphereland. Accessible, imaginative, clever, the book will appeal to a wide array of readers, from serious mathematicians and computer scientists, to science fiction fans 1166735 1984 The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World total:43|5:15|4:18|3:8|2:2|1:0| 43 175 78 10 4 0 true false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1985 Mon Nov 02 10:48:31 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 02 10:59:31 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 18 07:01:09 -0800 2009 Sun Feb 08 11:02:03 -0800 2009
The setting is a graduate program in the early 1980's. Computers are mainframes, time and resources are precious, and programs are primitive at best.

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