Sphereland: A Fantasy About Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe

Author: Dionijs Burger Jr.

A short Science Fiction novel by a distinguished Dutch mathematician which entertains and instructs in the multi-dimensional geometries of curved space and the expanding universe…..Read More

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