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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
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For the most part I hate maths, other than stats & arithmetic, but I loved this absolutely mad book!
My copy didn't come with the line drawings, but they are available on http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Fl... I only found this site after I finished my read last night. I was happy with my imagination travelling with A Square trying to puzzle out his universe!
I wish I had discovered this book when I was at intermediate school. I was decent at maths until Year 10 and using my love of words may have made me try harder with maths - although I don't think anything could have made me & trig friends!
Knocked off a star for an often patronising attitude to women. Abbott may have thought he was being funny.
I didn't.
My copy didn't come with the line drawings, but they are available on http://www.geom.uiuc.edu/~banchoff/Fl... I only found this site after I finished my read last night. I was happy with my imagination travelling with A Square trying to puzzle out his universe!
I wish I had discovered this book when I was at intermediate school. I was decent at maths until Year 10 and using my love of words may have made me try harder with maths - although I don't think anything could have made me & trig friends!
Knocked off a star for an often patronising attitude to women. Abbott may have thought he was being funny.
I didn't.
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Feb 18, 2021 04:04PM
The drawings are both somewhat amusing and helpful.
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HBalikov wrote: "The drawings are both somewhat amusing and helpful."As is my imagination which was doing circles 🔴& triangles 🔺 & loopy d loops 🎢 like a mad thing.
I read this for a group challenge & truly didn't expect to enjoy this book as much as I did!
Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ wrote: "HBalikov wrote: "The drawings are both somewhat amusing and helpful."As is my imagination which was doing circles 🔴& triangles 🔺 & loopy d loops 🎢 like a mad thing.
I read this for a group chall..."
Glad that you did, Carol. I need to re-read it.
I love it when a book excites me - especially when I'm not expecting it to!
Does the link work for others? I get a 'cannot find server' message.
This sounds like fun aside from the sexism. Great review!
Daren wrote: "Does the link work for others? I get a 'cannot find server' message."It did work for me, but I have removed the html coding. :)
Carol She's So Novel꧁꧂ wrote: "Daren wrote: "Does the link work for others? I get a 'cannot find server' message."It did work for me, but I have removed the html coding. :)"
Thanks, working now!
