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deltabourne
Oct5-04, 01:04 PM
Brian Greene mentions it it in The Elegant Universe. It's a book about a society that lives in a 2-d world or something. It sounded interesting and I wanted to look it up.. any ideas?
Evo
Oct5-04, 01:07 PM
Flatland

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deltabourne
Oct5-04, 01:08 PM
Ah! Thanks. Now that being said, has anyone read it? Any good?
arildno
Oct5-04, 01:23 PM
It's a bumpy ride, from what I've heard..
selfAdjoint
Oct5-04, 03:22 PM
It's a classic, and cheap. Get it and read it!
poolwin2001
Oct6-04, 06:32 AM
I happened to read it recently and in my opinion the books like Hyperspace by Kaku etc give a good idea of necessary math about that.But if you want to read a novel.Go ahead.
P.S:I think copyrights have expired and its available for free as an ebook.
recon
Oct7-04, 10:23 AM
It's a bumpy ride, from what I've heard..

It was a very easy read for me. If you've read The Elegant Universe, you wouldn't really learn anything new from Flatland. Much of the geometry described is common sense nowadays. Nonetheless, Flatland still remains as a very entertaining novel.
arildno
Oct7-04, 12:24 PM
It was a very easy read for me. If you've read The Elegant Universe, you wouldn't really learn anything new from Flatland. Much of the geometry described is common sense nowadays. Nonetheless, Flatland still remains as a very entertaining novel.
Ok, then, yet another failed joke from my part.:cry:
check
Oct7-04, 12:38 PM
LOL, aww poor arildno. I thought it was quite clever.
arildno
Oct7-04, 12:41 PM
thx a lot, check! I put a lot of work into it..
recon
Oct9-04, 02:38 AM
My mother dropped me on my head when I was young.

Since then, I've had to work hard to memorise jokes to be able to identify a joke when someone makes one so that I can laugh a big fake laugh. Thanks for the new joke, arildno. I'm sure it will come in handy. :smile: :redface:
meteor
Oct9-04, 05:15 AM
I have the book. The author is Edwin Abbott
You can also find it for free in Internet here
http://abbott.thefreelibrary.com/Flatland
gerben
Oct9-04, 07:20 PM
P.S:I think copyrights have expired and its available for free as an ebook.

Many books with expired copyrights can be down loaded from the project gutenberg website (http://www.gutenberg.net), here is flatland:
http://www.gutenberg.net/etext/201