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Dedicated to my dear grandfather Edwin E. Abbot (1838-1926), the author of the infamousFlatland—a Romance in Many Dimensions [1].
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Polster, B., Schroth, A.E. & Van Maldeghem, H. Generalized Flatland. The Mathematical Intelligencer 23, 33–47 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03024601
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