Her investigation into curved space leads into a discussion of quantum physics and relativity, a theory the Space Hopper insists is poorly named, since it's based on the one thing that isn't relative - the speed of light. In another she can see herself in the distance. Instead of a Sphere, Victoria receives a visit from a Space Hopper, a creature who helps her visit not just many dimensions higher than the third, but a number of other strange geometric worlds. Square, reads her ancestor's book (against her father's express prohibition) and finds in it a code for summoning a visitor from Spaceland. One hundred years after the events of the first book, Victoria Line, great-great-granddaughter of the original A. The subtitle of Flatterland is "Like Flatland, only more so." Stewart wrote it as a sequel to and extension of Edwin Abbott's 1884 geometrical satire, Flatland. Stewart is an English mathematician and contributor to a branch of geometry called " catastrophe theory." Sounds fun, eh? Over the holidays, I read Flatterland by Ian Stewart.
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