The Planiverse
Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World
Résumé
So begins A.K. Dewdney's 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, 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.
This book, following in the footsteps Edward Abbot's nineteenth century classic Flatland, is a cult favorite among mathematicians and computer scientists. As a kind of mental puzzle or brain-teaser, it challenges and delights, inviting readers to imagine just how a two-dimensional world might work. But the book is also a parable, serving as a cautionary tale about the difficulties of communication from one totally alien world to another, and suggesting that it is not only two-dimensional Ardeans who fail to see beyond the the obvious world before their eyes.
Contents
- Arde
- A house by the sea
- On fiddib har
- Walking to is felblt
- City below ground
- The trek
- The punizlan institute
- Traveling on the wind
- High on Dahl Radam
- Drabk the Sharak of Okbra
- Higher Dimensions
L'auteur - A.K. Dewdney
A.K. Dewdney is a mathematician, computer scientist,
astronomer, engineer, and biologist. 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 the author of 11 books.
Caractéristiques techniques
PAPIER | |
Éditeur(s) | Springer |
Auteur(s) | A.K. Dewdney |
Parution | 01/11/2000 |
Édition | 9eme édition |
Nb. de pages | 245 |
Format | 15,5 x 23,4 |
Couverture | Broché |
Poids | 470g |
Intérieur | Noir et Blanc |
EAN13 | 9780387989167 |
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