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Date: Wed, 31 Jan 1996 02:38:05 -0500
To: Thomas_Banchoff@postoffice.brown.edu (Thomas Banchoff) From: moocow@brown.edu (Lisa Eckstein)
Subject: B3D Chap 1

A few questions:

1. The natural environment of an amoeba is presumably not a microscope slide. Is an amoeba's habitat a (virtually) two-dimensional world, such as the surface of water? If not, how does the membrane protect the amoeba's nucleus?

2. My edition of Flatland (and others, I believe) attributes the book to "A. Square", as if this were a first initial and last name. But the original edition is by "A Square" - an anonymous description, not a name. When and how did the erroneous period appear? 

3. How do William Stringham's illustrations represent four dimensional figures? 

%) Lisa