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	Flatland
		It always seemed the "canonical sequel" to me. Flatterland is also a sequel to Flatland both in terms of plot and intent, and definitely a product of the early 21st Century.
		Flatterland takes a "radical" sequel approach; it's a "hip and with it" 21st Century sequel; the protagonist isn't a lone scribe but a teenage girl who emails friends on the InterLine and gripes about her parents.
		The story moves quickly and is a wide-ranging overview of different geometries and even questions like "what the heck is a geometry anyway?", as well as diving into notions like space-time, quantum mechanics, etc. Rather than a gentle analogy or investigation by the characters, a helpful guide gives lessons about each new facet of mathematics.
	www.calormen.com /Flatland (2235 words)

	Flatterland review (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Flatterland is a quick, ingenious overview of new and bewildering concepts in mathematics.
		The snappy dialog and the (minimal) plot allow you to read it like a novel, and that's not the way to grasp and retain the complex concepts that Stewart introduces.
		I never learned whether any of this math has any practical applications, and I barely got the feeling that working on it would be exciting.
	mywebpages.comcast.net /roygoodman/flatterland.html (337 words)

	Book Review: Flatterland by Ian Stewart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		In Flatterland Victoria discovers a copy of Flatland and so reads about the 'disgrace' brought to her family by Albert and his ridiculous story.
		Flatterland continues this custom and ends with a neat twist in the concluding chapters.
		Flatterland is written in a whimsical 'chatty' style that some may find irritating.
	www.boomerangbooks.com /reviews/flatterland.htm (711 words)

	Space, time, matter, and … modern geometries. - Flatterland - book review Science News - Find Articles
		Flatterland provides an engaging, completely accessible guide to some of the trickiest concepts in contemporary mathematics.
		Through larger-than-life characters and an inspired story line, Flatterland explores our present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time, and matter, as well as modern geometries and their applications.
		Informed by Stewart's ingenious stream of wordplay and crackling dialogue, Flatterland is the story of Vikki's fantastic voyage through the Mathiverse.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m1200/is_5_163/ai_97450843 (548 words)

	Rainbow Dragon Recommends
		Flatterland tells the story of A. Square's great-great-granddaughter, Victoria Line, a modern young Flatlander living in a society which has progressed somewhat since great-great-granddad's time, but not enough for young Vikki, who yearns for liberation from the sexist views of her father and the other polygons.
		Vikki is rumaging through the cellar of her family's pentagonal home when she makes a discovery which will ultimately change her life - and possibly those of all of the females and males of Flatland as well.
		It is. The concepts are thrown at the reader fast and furiously, but the antics of the Space Hopper, along with Vikki's engagement with the material, make such weird and abstract ideas as 10th, 11th and even fractional dimensions both relevant and interesting.
	rainbowdragon.ca /reviews/flatterland.shtml (1140 words)

	frontwheeldrive.com: reviews (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Flatterland has been criticized for not treating science serious enough, but that criticism is off base.
		In this respect, Flatterland is right along the lines of the original.
		Early chapters covering "traditional" modern mathematical interests such as multidimensional systems, fractals, and topology were the most interesting, while the later portions of the book drift away toward more physical concerns like quantum mechanics, relativity, and cosmology.
	frontwheeldrive.com /reviews_flatland.html (1005 words)

	Borders - Store Inventory - Title Detail - Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So, Art of Mentoring Ser.
		Through larger-than-life characters and an inspired story line, "Flatterland" explores the present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, as well as modern geometries and their applications.
		"Containing plenty of illustrations and analogies to help readers through the Mathiverse, Flatterland is an accessible introduction to a number of the abstract worlds.
		Contributing to a long line of sequels, Stewart (mathematics, U. of Warwick) tells of the narrator A. Square's great-great-granddaughter Vikky in a society rather like Britain and the US in the early 1960s, though with the Internet thrown in.
	www.bordersstores.com /search/title_detail.jsp?id=52982712 (322 words)

	Flatterland - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Flatterland is a 2001 book by mathematician and science popularizer Ian Stewart about non-Euclidean geometry.
		It was written as a sequel to Flatland, an 1884 novel that discussed different dimensions.
		Ian Stewart often includes puns and topical references in his popular writing, and "Flatterland" is no exception.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Flatterland (335 words)

	Re: Hard working? Rant mode Re: W. on the Environment
		The story moves quickly and is a wide-ranging overview of different geometries and even questions like "what the heck is a geometry anyway?", as well as diving into notions like spacetime, quantum mechanics, etc. Rather than a gentle analogy or investigation by the characters, a helpful guide gives lessons about each new facet of mathematics.
		Sphereland feels more like a timeless sequel to Flatland, but having had a week to ponder, I think Flatterland is the true contemporary follow-on; it addresses pertinent questions now and using concepts familiar to the current audience.
		Joshua * Flatterland was actually published in 2000; please forgive me for slipping it into this century.
	www.mail-archive.com /brin-l@cornell.edu/msg04829.html (818 words)

	Amazon.com: Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So: Books: Ian Stewart (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		With Flatterland, Ian Stewart, an amiable professor of mathematics at the University of Warwick, updates the science of Flatland, adding literally countless dimensions to Abbott's scheme of things ("Your world has not just four dimensions," one of his characters proclaims, "but five, fifty, a million, or even an infinity of them!
		Ian's style, both humourous and informative, brings the flatland characters into the context of this millennium and opens the readers mind to the rich complexity of the world of mathematics.
		One of Edwin Abbott's remarkable accomplishments in FLATLAND was to combine his mathematical/philosophical ponderings of multidimensional space with a biting satire of Victorian society worthy of Jonathan Swift.
	www.amazon.com /Flatterland-Like-Flatland-Only-More/dp/073820675X (2709 words)

	screaming-penguin.com
		slashdot has a story with a link and a review of a new book called "Flatterland." Flatterland is a sequal to the monumental "Flatland" written by Edwin Abbot circa 100 years ago.
		Flatland was intended to demonstrate higher dimensional concepts using a 2 dimensional universe and 2 dimensional beings.
		Flatterland takes the concept further and uses a one dimensional line living in a two dimensional world that is thrust into a three (and more) dimensional world.
	www.screaming-penguin.com /main.php?storyid=1732 (239 words)

	Flatterland
		In 1884, Edwin A. Abbott combined mathematics and philosophy in the classic tale Flatland, in which he made fun of Victorian England's stiff society while introducing the concept of life in four dimensions.
		Victoria Line (yes, that's a pun at the expense of London's Underground), great-great-granddaughter of Abbott's original narrator A. Square, has stumbled upon his diary in the attic.
		Flatterland is available from Amazon.com - so is Edwin Abbott's Flatland.
	www.scifidimensions.com /Sep01/flatterland.htm (309 words)

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		Ian Stewart's Flatterland, an update on Flatland, gives us a perspective on the social concerns and the richer geometry of our own era.
		Its premise is that one hundred years after the events described above another traveler arrives and whisks away another flatlander, this time a young woman, to see and learn about a wide variety of concepts in geometry and then physics.
		At this very last moment, she has unexpected learned that Flatterland females have a projection into the third dimension, invisible to all Flatlanders, but visible to space travelers.
	jfi.uchicago.edu /~leop/AboutPapers/GeoPhysAndSocComm.txt (946 words)

	The Jakarta Post - The Journal of Indonesia Today
		Probably the teacher or the teaching methods meant mathematics was a nightmare in class.
		Flatland is a story about A. Square who resides in a two dimensional world and through the machinations of a Sphere is taken on a tour of three dimensions and the wonders therein.
		The heroine of the present work is Victoria Line (in Flatterland males are Squares and Females are Lines, with the males bearing the names of the great squares of London such as Grosvenor Square and the females bearing the names of subway lines, such as Victoria Line).
	www.thejakartapost.com /yesterdaydetail.asp?fileid=20020929.G07 (894 words)

	Narrative Plus Math Equals Sales - 4/16/2001 - Publishers Weekly (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The latest sequel, by Ian Stewart, is called Flatterland and is to be published by Perseus next month.
		With an assist from Superpaws (Schrodinger's cat), the Space Girls and the Hawk King (a nod to Stephen Hawking), Victoria, the thoroughly modern granddaughter of A. Square, explores quantum mechanics, fl holes and superstrings.
		Given the unique nature of Flatterland, v-p/associate publisher and marketing director Elizabeth Carduff said the house plans to launch with a 20,000-copy first printing and a similarly unique marketing campaign.
	www.publishersweekly.com /article/CA72263.html (953 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		The Fourth Dimension is mild indeed compared to the mind-boggling inventions of geometers and physicists--- spaces with infinitely many dimensions, spaces with none, spaces with fractional dimension, spaces with finitely many points, curved spaces, spaces that get mixed up with time, and spaces that aren't really there at all.
		There is ample scope to play Abbott's game again in lots of new contexts, and that's the scientific content of Flatterland.
		But if you want to have fun with the latest concepts of space, time, and geometry, Flatterland is the place to go.
	freespace.virgin.net /ianstewart.joat/flatterland.html (473 words)

	Salon.com Books \| Once upon a dimension
		After some great chapters on alternate-shaped universes and curved space-time and such, he covers the contemporary stuff pretty broadly -- superstring theory, supersymmetry.
		It's as though he wanted to make 'Flatterland' a comprehensive book about all the strange implications of modern mathematics and physics -- while at the same time needed to step up his writing pace as he went on.
		Like Abbott, Stewart is the author of about 60 books, and sometimes 'Flatterland' reads as though he were already thinking about the next one: It gradually starts to seem a bit willy-nilly and half-cooked."
	archive.salon.com /books/feature/2001/06/18/flatterland/index2.html (986 words)

	Flatterland - Book review - Does God Exist? - MarApr04 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Flatterland - Book review - Does God Exist?
		For many years, we have told the story of Flatland written in 1884 by Edwin Abbott.
		It is useful, however, in understanding the foolishness of maintaining that all we can know is what we perceive through our senses, and also in understanding how a being in a higher dimension can function in a lower one.
	www.doesgodexist.org /MarApr04/Flatterland.html (510 words)

	Perseus Books Home
		Now, from mathematician and accomplished science writer Ian Stewart, comes what Nature calls "a superb sequel." Through larger-than-life characters and an inspired story line, Flatterland explores our present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time, and matter, as well as modern geometries and their applications.
		In the tradition of Alice in Wonderland and The Phantom Toll Booth, this magnificent investigation into the nature of reality is destined to become a modern classic.
		"Flatland challenged the familiar conception of three dimensions; Flatterland challenges the familiar conception of dimension itself."
	www.perseusbooksgroup.com /perseus/book_detail.jsp?isbn=073820675X (196 words)

	SFBookcase.com - Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So by Ian Stewart - Reference of Science Fiction and Fantasy ...
		SFBookcase.com - Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So by Ian Stewart - Reference of Science Fiction and Fantasy Novels/Authors.
		In 1884, Edwin A. Abbott published a brilliant novel about mathematics and philosophy that charmed and fascinated all of England.
		Now, British mathematician and accomplished science writer Ian Stewart has written a fascinating, modern sequel to Abbott's book.
	www.sfbookcase.com /viewbook.asp?bookno=3739 (221 words)

	Proverbs for paranoids (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		I finished Flatterland and A Mote in God’s Eye.
		The latter part of Flatterland was much better, with nonorientable surfaces and the definitions and mechanics of multi-dimensional stuff.
		A Mote turned out to be an excellent hard science fiction novel that deals with man’s first contact with an intelligent alien race.
	ug.dyndns.org /~jclements/index.php?m=20050316 (227 words)

	Science Fiction Book Reviews
		Therein lie both his powers and his deficiencies.
		The primary rationale for the existence of Flatterland is the introduction and elucidation of complicated ideas and theories and history.
		If SF writers really were obsessive academic experts, all SF would end up sounding like Stewart's sometimes dry but overall engaging book.
	www.scifi.com /sfw/issue214/books2.html (631 words)

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		Mindy Shapero will make her New York solo debut at CRG Gallery.
		The new sculpture and large drawings form what Shapero refers to as “The Infinite Truths of Flatterland”, a continuation of her previous exhibition “Inside the Circle Traps” at Anna Helwing Gallery last January.
		It was created by Stephane, and it is based on the work of the outrageous Japanese pulp-surrealist, Suehiro Maruo.
	training.sessions.edu /designSessions/Blogroll_archive.html (1786 words)

	Flatterland: Like Flatland Only More So by Ian Stewart
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	www.fantasticfiction.co.uk /s/ian-stewart/flatterland.htm (280 words)

	ArtCal - CRG Gallery - Mindy Shapero, The Infinite Truths of Flatterland
		ArtCal - CRG Gallery - Mindy Shapero, The Infinite Truths of Flatterland
		Such and more is elaborated on in Shaperos fl and white illustrated zines that accompany her work.
		All images and content provided by galleries and artists remain © the gallery and/or the individual artist
	www.artcal.net /event/view/1/3253 (319 words)

	Book Information: Flatterland :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		Book Information: Flatterland :: Internet Book List :: A database of book information and reviews
		Along the way, we meet Schrödinger's Cat, The Charming Construction Entity, The Mandelblot (who lives in Fractalia), and Moobius the one-sided cow.
		Original title: Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So Original language: English
	www.iblist.com /book24498.htm (183 words)

	Flatterland Text - Physics Forums Library (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-06)
		Physics Help and Math Help - Physics Forums > Science Education > Academic and Career Guidance > Science Book Reviews > Flatterland
		01-31-2005, 03:36 PM Anyone who liked "Flatland", will love "Flatterland".
		Stewart writes with engrossing humor and intense interest in each different point of VUE (read the book, and you'll know what I mean).
	www.physicsforums.com /archive/index.php/t-62054.html (222 words)

	Books > Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So
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