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Sep. 21, 2012
The SciFri Book Club Visits ‘Flatland’
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Mathematician Ian Stewart joins the Science Friday Book Club meeting to discuss Edwin Abbott’s classic Flatland. The book, published in 1884 under the pseudonym “A. Square,” tells the story of a two-dimensional world where women are straight lines and men are polygons.
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Produced by Annette Heist, Senior Producer
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Flora Lichtman
Multimedia Editor
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Annette Heist
Senior Producer
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Ian Stewart
Emeritus Professor of Mathematics
University of Warwick (UK)
Author, "Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So" (Basic Books, 2001); "The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" (Basic Books, 2001)
Columbus, Ohio
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