A dream-journey in a soap bubble to lower dimensions…
Stories for 'Geometry'
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An amateur detective solves a code which announced the assassination of a governor using some dubious mathematics. -
A very well-written story about a man who builds a triangular house, with a mathematical formula which leads to the revelation of an illicit affair and the participants in the affair… -
A detective, one Mr. Pearson, catches the crooks using a little geometry. -
A novel about an expedition undertaken by a group of mountaineers to Mount Analogue, a mountain invisible to the outside world, but whose existence can be deduced using science. -
How visual geometrical estimation fails in front of a clever charlatan… -
A short novel that discusses how a blind geometer might visualize abstract spaces, and touches upon some results from projective geometry as well. -
Dr. Lyle Thaddius has been a practicing psychiatrist for 30 years, dedicated to resolving the inner conflicts and demons of all who need help. He takes on a new patient, Juan Gris, who insists on the doctor visiting his house for the counseling sessions, at 3 times the normal fees. Gris, it turns out, is an extremely old man, past 100 likely, who lives in what is described as a “madman’s house”. -
A short narrative about the discovery of irrational numbers and various geometric concepts by the ancient Greeks. -
A Dr. Who story involving Pythagoras and an inter-dimensional gateway.