Customer Review: In creating a 2D world Dewdney expands our 3D vision
This is a great book. By creating a 2D world Dewdney expands our 3D vision.
In reading this book I was reminded of not only Abbott's Flatland (which was the original inspiration) I was also reminded of Charles Hinton's Fourth Dimension and Choas Coincidence and All That Math Jazz.
In each work, the writers effectively used 2D analogies to give us an idea of what 4D space might be like.
What Dewdney did however was to build detail into what has always been a simple model and thereby give greater detail to the potentialities of our vision.
While others have said that this book would be great for mathematicians I would offer that this book is great for anyone seeking to expand their horizons.
As Henry David Thoreau wrote in concluding his Walden: "There is more light to day than dawn. The sun is but a morningstar!"
Read this book and others like it and bask in the light of that morningstar!
Customer Review: Wonderful
I encourage others to pick this book up. It's great for an inquisitive high schooler (as I was) or an adult.
Dewdney does an excellent job of pulling the reader into the story- one feels as if they are sitting there right next to the screen, waiting for the next contact.
Difficult to put down, and difficult to go back to reality afterwards.
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