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The Planiverse
A. K. Dewdney
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Description for The Planiverse
Paperback. AK Dewdney is well known for his columns in "Scientific American magazine", as well as his Copernicus book, "Hungry Hollow". Num Pages: 247 pages, 2 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: PDZ; PHVB; UY. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 233 x 157 x 15. Weight in Grams: 408.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York Inc. United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
247
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780387989167
SKU
V9780387989167
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