 | Clifford A. Pickover - Science - 1999 - 266 pages
...belauded Circles.' " Sally nods. "Here, let me read a passage to you in which the square is speaking": I call our world Flatland, not because we call it...Space. . . . Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining in their places,... | |
 | Donald C. Benson - Mathematics - 2003 - 286 pages
...certainty and evidence. — DAVID HUME i7i i-76, An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding Tubeland f call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature dearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper... | |
 | Jordi Fraxedas - Science - 2006 - 307 pages
...capabilities of scanning probe microscopes (SPMs) have not yet been fully applied to MOMs! 4 Interfaces I call our world Flatland, not because we call it...happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Edwin A. Abbott, Flatland This chapter is devoted to interfaces involving small organic molecules.... | |
 | Lawrence D. Kritzman, Brian J. Reilly - History - 2006 - 828 pages
...in Many Dimensions (1884), is missing a whole dimension. "I call our world Flatland," Abbott wrote, "not because we call it so, but to make its nature...happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space." To be sure, the gradual discovery of supplementary dimensions in the world of economics could not have... | |
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I CALL our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. 