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Flatland
Overview
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 a couple of accessible and charming explanations of geometry and physics for the curious non-mathematician. Flatland, imagines a two-dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes who think their planar world is all there is. But one Flatlander, a Square, discovers the existence of a third dimension and the limits of his world's assumptions about reality and comes to understand the confusing problem of higher dimensions
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9781607961024
- ISBN-10: 1607961024
- Publisher: www.bnpublishing.com
- Publish Date: March 2009
- Dimensions: 9.69 x 7.44 x 0.21 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.43 pounds
- Page Count: 100
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