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Planiverse : Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World by A. K. Dewdney (2000, Trade Paperback)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherSpringer New York
ISBN-100387989161
ISBN-139780387989167
eBay Product ID (ePID)1431069
Product Key Features
Number of PagesXxxi, 247 Pages
Publication NamePlaniverse : Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2000
SubjectGeometry / Non-Euclidean, Physics / Astrophysics, Computer Science, General
TypeTextbook
Subject AreaMathematics, Computers, Science
AuthorA. K. Dewdney
FormatTrade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height0.3 in
Item Weight18.1 Oz
Item Length9.3 in
Item Width6.1 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
LCCN99-042454
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
Number of Volumes1 vol.
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal530.1/42
Table Of Content1 Arde.- 2 A House by the Sea.- 3 On Fiddib Har.- 4 Walking to Is Felblt.- 5 City Below Ground.- 6 The Trek.- 7 The Punizlan Institute.- 8 Traveling on the Wind.- 9 High on Dahl Radam.- 10 Drabk the Sharak of Okbra.- 11 Higher Dimensions.- Ardean Science and Technology.- Acknowledgments.
SynopsisWhen The Planiverse ?rst appeared 16 years ago, it caught more than a few readers off guard. The line between willing suspension of dis- lief and innocent acceptance, if it exists at all, is a thin one. There were those who wanted to believe, despite the tongue-in-cheek subtext, that we had made contact with a two-dimensional world called Arde, a di- shaped planet embedded in the skin of a vast, balloon-shaped space called the planiverse. It is tempting to imagine that those who believed, as well as those who suspended disbelief, did so because of a persuasive consistency in the cosmology and physics of this in'nitesimally thin universe, and x preface to the millennium edition in its bizarre but oddly workable organisms. This was not just your r- of-the-mill universe fashioned out of the whole cloth of wish-driven imagination. The planiverse is a weirder place than that precisely - cause so much of it was "worked out" by a virtual team of scientists and technologists. Reality, even the pseudoreality of such a place, is - variably stranger than anything we merely dream up., A.K. Dewdney is well known for his columns in Scientific American magazine, as well as his recent Copernicus book, Hungry Hollow. The Planiverse is being brought back into print, in a revised and updated edition, and to the delight of its many fans and loyal devotees., When The Planiverse ?rst appeared 16 years ago, it caught more than a few readers off guard. The line between willing suspension of dis- lief and innocent acceptance, if it exists at all, is a thin one. There were those who wanted to believe, despite the tongue-in-cheek subtext, that we had made contact with a two-dimensional world called Arde, a di- shaped planet embedded in the skin of a vast, balloon-shaped space called the planiverse. It is tempting to imagine that those who believed, as well as those who suspended disbelief, did so because of a persuasive consistency in the cosmology and physics of this in?nitesimally thin universe, and x preface to the millennium edition in its bizarre but oddly workable organisms. This was not just your r- of-the-mill universe fashioned out of the whole cloth of wish-driven imagination. The planiverse is a weirder place than that precisely - cause so much of it was "worked out" by a virtual team of scientists and technologists. Reality, even thepseudoreality of such a place, is - variably stranger than anything we merely dream up., Some students and their professor, hard at work graphically modeling a two-dimensional world, find, to their astonishment, that they are communicating with Yendred, their only contact in the 2D world of Arde. At first disbelieving, they are soon entranced by a universe in which astonishing tiny creatures - indeed an entire astonishing world - exist solely on an x-y plane. So begins A.K. Dewdneys tale of trans-dimensional discovery and communication. Following in the footsteps of the nineteenth century classic Flatland, The Planiverse challenges and delights, inviting readers to imagine just how a two-dimensional world might work. But the book is also a cautionary tale about the difficulties of communication from one totally alien world to another.
LC Classification NumberQB460-466
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