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To: SENTINEL
"Flatland by E.A. Abbott"

I have that one as well. A couple of other neat ones I have in my library ( may be out of print ), both from Dover, are:

"Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension " by Rudolf v. B. Rucker

"Taxicab Geometry, An Adventure in Non-Euclidean Geometry " by Eugene F. Krause

Neat little books that sort of take off from where Flatland left off...

18 posted on 04/26/2005 7:51:07 PM PDT by Tench_Coxe
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To: Tench_Coxe
"Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension " by Rudolf v. B. Rucker

Rudy Rucker has also written a number of science fiction stories, and they're *very* mindbending -- like taking a drug trip via text. Even calling them "science fiction" doesn't really capture their weirdness. Perhaps they're better described as "math fiction" or "physics fiction"...

25 posted on 04/27/2005 2:19:08 AM PDT by Ichneumon
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