Subtitle: Computer Contact With a Two-Dimensional World
Author: A. K. Dewdney
Publisher: Simon & Schuster (1984)
ISBN: 0671463624
Category: Science & Technology / Mathematics
Synopsis:
The year is 1981, and in the computer lab of a large university a group of graduate students and their professor are hard at work on the departmental mainframe, graphically modeling an imaginary two-dimensional world.
The project is going well, extraordinarily well, when one student suddenly notices that the world they are building on-screen is...inhabited!" "So begins A. K. Dewdney's tale of discovery and communication with the two-dimensional civilization of Arde.
Since its original publication in 1984, The Planiverse has developed a kind of cult readership, following in the footsteps of Edward Abbot's nineteenth-century classic Flatland. As a kind of mental puzzle or brain-teaser, it challenges and delights, inviting readers to imagine just how a two-dimensional world might actually work.
But the book is also a fable, serving as a cautionary tale about the difficulties of communication from one totally alien world to another, and suggesting that it is not only Yendred and his fellow 2-D Ardeans who cannot imagine dimensions beyond those they see.
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Tags: Computer Science (General) | Mathematics | Science Fiction | Mensuration | Flatland | Hyperspace | Space and time
Pages: 267
Binding: Paperback
Condition: Good ( Book condition rating information)
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