The planiverse: Computer contact with a two-dimensional world
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| Rating | : | 4.94 (858 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0671463632 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 267 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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William Sommerwerck said a more-than-worthy successor to "Flatland". Having just watched one of the two movie versions of Abbott's "Flatland" (I won't say which), I decided a review of "The Planiverse" was in order."The Planiverse" roughly reverses "Flatland", in that we see most of the story from the perspective of the higher dimension, rather than the lower. And though there's plenty of social satire (of a mild sort), the story focuses o. In the 1980's some students and a Professor meet YNDRD The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two Dimensional World by AK DewdneyThe setting is a graduate program in the early 1980's. Computers are mainframes, time and resources are precious, and programs are primitive at best.A group of students led by their professor decide to model a two dimensional world--with the deptyh and horizontal axis rather than the horizontal and. A Customer said Back Cover. Once every hundred years or so, a new reality is discovered. In 188Back Cover A Customer Once every hundred years or so, a new reality is discovered. In 1884 Edwin Abbott's classic, Flatland, captured readers' imaginations with and ingenious excursion into a two-dimensional society. Now, a century later, Dr. Alexander Keewatin Dewdney, a theoretical computer scientist, takes us on an exciting journey through and an amazingly complex, self-consistent two-dimen. Edwin Abbott's classic, Flatland, captured readers' imaginations with and ingenious excursion into a two-dimensional society. Now, a century later, Dr. Alexander Keewatin Dewdney, a theoretical computer scientist, takes us on an exciting journey through and an amazingly complex, self-consistent two-dimen
This book, following in the footsteps Edward AbbotÕs nineteenth century classic Flatland, is a cult favorite among mathematicians and computer scientists. 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 their mainframe, graphically modeling an imaginary two-dimensional world. DewdneyÕs newly republished 1984 tale of trans-dimensional discovery and communication. The students and their professor find, to their astonishment, that they are communicating with Yendred,
Arde easily becomes a puzzle without end. Dewdney has done just that. In the process, it changes the way we look at our own. -- Erik Sandberg-Diment, The New York Times. -- The Boston GlobeOnce you have been captivated by the two-dimensional Ardean world, the problems facing its difficult technology haunt you, begging for more solutions. -- Thomas Banchoff, NatureIt's not everyone who gets to design a universe from scratch. But A.K. The Planiverse stretches our imagination by introducing a new and different kind of world. -- Discover MagazineA worthy successor to Flatland
Currently, most of the author's spare time is taken up by his work in a natural area close to his home, a 100-acre complex of forest and ponds. . A.K. A member of the computer science department at the University of Western Ontario for 27 years, he retired in 1997, only to be appointed professor of Zoology at the same university in 1998 in recognition of his important biological work. Dewdney is