Ebook: The Planiverse: Computer Contact with a Two-Dimensional World

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 the pseudoreality of such a place, is - variably stranger than anything we merely dream up.

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The Planiverse is a classic book about life in a two-dimensional universe. A.K. Dewdney is a well-known author, and this is a well-known book, which is now brought back into print in a revised and updated edition. The book is written within the great tradition of Abbott's Flatland, and Hinton's famous Sphereland. Accessible, imaginative, clever, the book will appeal to a wide array of readers, from serious mathematicians and computer scientists, to science fiction fans

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The Planiverse is a classic book about life in a two-dimensional universe. A.K. Dewdney is a well-known author, and this is a well-known book, which is now brought back into print in a revised and updated edition. The book is written within the great tradition of Abbott's Flatland, and Hinton's famous Sphereland. Accessible, imaginative, clever, the book will appeal to a wide array of readers, from serious mathematicians and computer scientists, to science fiction fans
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
Arde....Pages 1-8
A House by the Sea....Pages 9-21
On Fiddib Har....Pages 23-39
Walking to is Felblt....Pages 41-58
City below Ground....Pages 59-82
The Trek....Pages 83-106
The Punizlan Institute....Pages 107-136
Traveling on the Wind....Pages 137-160
High on Dahl Radam....Pages 161-184
Drabk the Sharak of Okbra....Pages 185-206
Higher Dimensions....Pages 207-216
Back Matter....Pages 217-247

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The Planiverse is a classic book about life in a two-dimensional universe. A.K. Dewdney is a well-known author, and this is a well-known book, which is now brought back into print in a revised and updated edition. The book is written within the great tradition of Abbott's Flatland, and Hinton's famous Sphereland. Accessible, imaginative, clever, the book will appeal to a wide array of readers, from serious mathematicians and computer scientists, to science fiction fans
Content:
Front Matter....Pages i-xxxi
Arde....Pages 1-8
A House by the Sea....Pages 9-21
On Fiddib Har....Pages 23-39
Walking to is Felblt....Pages 41-58
City below Ground....Pages 59-82
The Trek....Pages 83-106
The Punizlan Institute....Pages 107-136
Traveling on the Wind....Pages 137-160
High on Dahl Radam....Pages 161-184
Drabk the Sharak of Okbra....Pages 185-206
Higher Dimensions....Pages 207-216
Back Matter....Pages 217-247
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