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| Author: | Simon Zeno [ Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:03 am ] |
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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. |
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| Author: | Capt. Ido Nos [ Wed Mar 15, 2006 3:10 am ] |
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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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| Author: | InterruptorJones [ Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:06 am ] |
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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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| Author: | ramrod [ Wed Mar 15, 2006 4:23 am ] |
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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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| Author: | ed 'lim' smilde [ Thu Mar 16, 2006 12:05 am ] |
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Capt. Ido Nos wrote: I will take this as an oportunity to declare that THERE IS SUCH A THING AS A FOUR-DIMENSIONAL CUBE XO. 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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| Author: | Capt. Ido Nos [ Thu Mar 16, 2006 1:42 am ] |
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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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| Author: | Simon Zeno [ Thu Mar 16, 2006 2:48 am ] |
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Capt. Ido Nos wrote: 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.
Psh, I know the word Tesseract. It was in Cube 2: Hypercube, a crappy made-for-tv sci-fi movie I watched. 
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