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On November 13, Tom Banchoff (Brown Professor of Mathematics) will discuss his research on the fourth dimension, including his biography of Edwin A. Abbott, The Man Who Wrote \u2018Flatland.\u2019<\/em><\/p>\n Flatland\u00a0<\/em>is the story of “a\u00a0square.” It is a memoir of an inhabitant of a two-dimensional world. In the book, this square visited such places as “Pointland” and “Spaceland” as it tried to figure out the structure of the universe. The event is recommended for anyway who has ever seen a square or knows someone who has seen a square.<\/p>\n Professor Banchoff\u2019s research includes the geometry and topology of smooth and polyhedral surfaces as well as development and dissemination of internet-based courseware for communication and visualization in undergraduate mathematics.<\/p>\n The event is free and open to the public.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n Date:\u00a0<\/strong>November 13 Contact:<\/b>\u00a0Mark Baumer<\/a>\u00a0|\u00a0 401-863-3642<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On November 13, Tom Banchoff (Brown Professor of Mathematics) will discuss his research on the fourth dimension, including his biography of Edwin A. Abbott, The Man Who Wrote \u2018Flatland.\u2019 Flatland\u00a0is the story of “a\u00a0square.” It is a memoir of an inhabitant of a two-dimensional world. In the book, this square visited such places as “Pointland” … Flatland Worldwide Event<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5893","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibits-events","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5893"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5893\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5893"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5893"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/library.brown.edu\/create\/libnews\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5893"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\nTime:\u00a0<\/strong>5:30 p.m.
\nLocation:\u00a0<\/strong>Digital Scholarship Lab<\/p>\n