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Has anyone else here read Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott? It's really a great book, if you're in to math and whatnot.

I did! You're right that was an awesome book. Although it really started with Wrinkle in Time this book got me in a state where I could comprhend n-th dimensional geometry, if that makes any sense. I will take this as an oportunity to declare that THERE IS SUCH A THING AS A FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CUBE XO. Sorry about that. I've had a... discussion about that recently, despite that book, andthis. Grr...

Yeah. Good book though. Behold, the King of Pointland.

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As per usual, Wikipedia has a good synopsis of the book, and since it's in the public domain you can read it in its (fairly short) entirety, illustrations included, here.

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My math teacher last year loved that book. She was kinda weird though. I remember her telling us about it, but it was too early for me to understand it.

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A cube is a 3-dimentional shape though, if it's in four dimensions, you'd have to come up with a new name for it.
TP: I haven't read the book but it sounds interesting.

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Well, yes, it does need a new name. Fortunately, somebody's already done that, but not too many people know the word Tesseract, so I just say 4D cube by analogy.

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Psh, I know the word Tesseract. It was in Cube 2: Hypercube, a crappy made-for-tv sci-fi movie I watched.