Shapes of things unknown?

Flash · 600544. Mon Aug 17, 2009 6:54 pm

I'm not disagreeing (or agreeing) about anything, with anybody. I'm mentioning a book.

Posital · 600566. Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:35 pm

Indeed you are mentioning a book. I don't think anyone disputes the text of that book or your summary of what it says.

It's just that it seems a little narrow in it's outlook, and not really an authority to be cited on dimensional musings. There was a follow-up book written in the 1970/80s (IIRC) that goes into this more rigorously - that would probably be better to cite. But google/amazon have let me down. Perhaps it was a magazine article - arggh, those little grey cells.

Even that book/article had a number of holes in it... not wormholes, mind.

It had some interesting asides on the design of doors and locks.

samivel · 600568. Mon Aug 17, 2009 7:47 pm

Is it any of these?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flatland#Related_works

Davini994 · 605005. Fri Aug 28, 2009 5:23 pm

NS on dimensions.