The "A" is his name, not his initial, so the author's search for the long form of his name seems misguided.
Let me illustrate my point.Ī careful reader of Flatland will note that the author was originally indicated by a pseudonym "A Square", not "A. Let that be a warning to potential readers. Readers who have enjoyed other works by Ian Stewart will delight in his play with words and concepts." In the spirit of Tom Lehrer's record jacket notes, I had added that if anyone did not appreciate the author's earlier puns and wordplays, he or she would likely not enjoy this book. But I ended up by writing a recommendation for the back cover that fairly accurately but slightly incompletely registers my evaluation: " Flatterland challenges readers to go beyond Flatland and deal with phenomena, not just in dimensions higher than four, but in many exotic geometric realms that stretch our imagination and powers of visualization. "Like Flatland only more so" is the cover claim of the new book by my friend Ian Stewart, and, like most Flatland purists, I was very skeptical when I first encountered that description.
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