A murder case in the Mongolian steppe. More importantly, their curiosity about tesseracts (fourth-dimensional analogs of a cube) and string theory (which hypothesizes eleven dimensions) extends well beyond the classroom.

I saw too much emphasis on showing that the situation of women in South Africa (and, by extrapolation, everywhere else in the world) is deplorable and deserves our pity. Based on Edwin Abott's book "Flatland", this is an animated short about geometric characters living in a two-dimensional world. But what do I know? Flatland, first published in 1884, was written by the clergyman, schoolmaster, and Shakespearean scholar Edwin Abbott Abbott—two Abbotts, to distinguish him from his father, Edwin Abbott,

A Square, attorney at law, struggles to instruct his grand daughter, A Hexagon, in the art of sight recognition. As enduring as that movie has been, I can say from experience it doesn’t connect as well with modern students. With Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell, Michael York, Joe Estevez. The second half of the book focuses on Square’s journey (in a dream) to Lineland, a world of only one dimension, and the square’s futile attempt to explain to the residents of Lineland his world of two dimensions. The film opens in a two dimensional world called Flatland populated by living squares, triangles, lines and other polygons. Watching and discussing the movie is consistently among their favorite memories of our class.

The world of lonely, middle-age policewoman Beauty Cuba changes forever when she receives a call for help from Billy, the lost love of her life who has recently been re-arrested for murder. When I began teaching, the only popular movie about math was Donald in Mathmagic Land, a Disney film from 1959 featuring Donald Duck. Throughout the book, the reader is well aware of the first, second, and third dimensions, but Abbott’s aim is to open our minds to the possibility of a fourth (and higher) dimension—how these dimensions could exist and how we could possibly conceive of them.In their adaptation of the book, the creative team behind To guide students through the various dimensions, the team takes Arthur Square carefully through Pointland, Lineland, and Spaceland, explaining with terrific visuals just how each dimension is formed. Later, Square is visited by a sphere who attempts to introduce him to the world of three dimensions. Further, it was very peculiar how black women openly talked about white's penises on a wedding party, and how others talked explicitly about the first night together.

Edmond Dantes is falsely accused by those jealous of his good fortune, and is sentenced to spend the rest of his life in the notorious island prison, Chateau d'If. In the future of 2010, three young Americans, Quentin, JT and Amy are visiting Shanghai, when they get shanghaied by mysterious Mr. Smith and taken to Flatland, a place where past and ... A portrait of femininity against a hostile land, questioning what it means to be a woman today in South Africa and the world at large. 3 of 9 people found this review helpful. The DVD includes an interview with Tom Banchoff, geometer and Flatland authority par excellence, but I’ll confine this review to the main story. Flatland is a two-dimensional universe occupied by living geometric figures - squares, triangles, circles, etc. Flatland: The Movie doesn’t have that problem.

For the first half of the book, we’re treated to all the details of this world—the way each generation of shapes gives birth to a shape with one more side than the preceding one, the caste system that gives preference to higher-sided polygons, the reason women (straight lines in Abbott’s story) are forbidden from facing men straight-on, etc. It is three days until the celebration of the year 3000. A portrait of femininity against a hostile land, questioning what it means to be a woman today in South Africa and the world at large. For over a century, math enthusiasts have been fascinated by Edwin A. Abbott’s 1884 novel The original novel revolves around the journey of a square (aptly named A.