![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Ian Stewart often includes puns and topical references in his popular writing, and "Flatterland" is no exception. Hopper and Victoria also visit the Domain of the Hawk King to discuss time travel and the Theory of Relativity. Topology and hyperbolic geometry are also discussed, as well as the Projective "Plain" (complete with intersecting "lions") and the quantum level. After showing Vikki higher dimensions, he begins showing her more modern theories, such as fractional dimensions and dimensions with isolated points. The Space Hopper, more than being able to move between Flatland and Spaceland, can travel to any space in the "Mathiverse", a set of all imaginable worlds. ![]() This prompts her to invite a sphere from Spaceland to visit her, but instead she is visited by the "Space Hopper" (a character looking somewhat like the " Space Hopper" children's toy with a gigantic grin, horns and a spherical body). (which we find out stands for Albert) Square's adventures in Spaceland that were related in "Flatland", his great-great-granddaughter, Victoria Line (Vikki), finds a copy of his book in her basement. It was written as a sequel to " Flatland", an 1884 novel that discussed different dimensions.Īlmost 100 years after A. "Flatterland" is a 2001 book by mathematician and science popularizer Ian Stewart about non-Euclidean geometry. ![]()
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