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Sep. 20, 2012

Preface to 'The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions'

by Ian Stewart

Just as Euclid’s plane is embedded in the surrounding richness of three-dimensional space, so Flatland is embedded in rich veins of history and science.

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