The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
From Amazon.com: The product of an agreeably dotty cleric named Edwin Abbott Abbott and first published in 1884, Flatland distills all that the Victorian era knew of higher mathematics--and then some--into a witty, complex novel of ideas. Ian Stewart, [... more]
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Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So
From Amazon.com: In 1884, an amiably eccentric clergyman and literary scholar named Edwin Abbott Abbott published an odd philosophical novel called Flatland, in which he explored such things as four-dimensional mathematics and gently satirized some of [... more]
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Surfing through Hyperspace: Understanding Higher ...
From Amazon.com: Clifford Pickover is IBM's Renaissance-guy-in-residence. His job is to play with cool ideas--time travel (Time: A Traveler's Guide), extraterrestrials (The Science of Aliens), and the line between genius and crackpot (Strange Brains and [... more]
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Imaginary Numbers: An Anthology of Marvelous ...
From Amazon.com: Don't be fooled by the title of Imaginary Numbers. Editor William Frucht hasn't devoted a book to explicating the many mysteries of the square root of minus one. What he has done is far more impressive. Pursuing what he envisions as & [... more]
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The Annotated Flatland
From Amazon.com: The product of an agreeably dotty cleric named Edwin Abbott Abbott and first published in 1884, Flatland distills all that the Victorian era knew of higher mathematics--and then some--into a witty, complex novel of ideas. Ian Stewart, [... more]
CDN$47.50
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Imaginary Numbers: An Anthology of Marvelous ...
From Amazon.com: Don't be fooled by the title of Imaginary Numbers. Editor William Frucht hasn't devoted a book to explicating the many mysteries of the square root of minus one. What he has done is far more impressive. Pursuing what he envisions as & [... more]
CDN$41.95
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