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Sphereland: A Fantasy about Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe

by Dionijs Burger Jr. · 1965

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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.

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