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Flatland Reflection

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My Grandfather’s clock is wrong. He built it. For many years he exhibited it in his home. After he passed away, it was relocated to another state, notwithstanding, it’s still erroneous. All that time no one perceived it except me. I always attempt to figure out new and interesting concepts and visual patterns, especially in math. From an early age I taught myself binary and used it for my secret codes. My family mostly rolled their eyese and walked away, when I tried to explain it. When I talked about complex numbers for about 9 months straight they started groaning. My younger brother stopped talking to me when I started on quaternions. Nonetheless, when my family has no interest, I have enjoyed pursuing this knowledge on my own and find joy in the discovery. As long as I can remember, I have …show more content…

It was originally written as a satirical novella on the Victorian hierarchy and culture. The book explores the idea of hypothetical creatures that are confined to a two dimensional plane. It employs the fiction of two dimensional characters escaping the plain as an analogy for rising above the thinking of the day to move onward to the future. Not only did the book help me with “out of the box” thinking, it also triggered an interesting train of thought on what the world would be like if we went from three spatial dimensions to four. In the book, the Flatlanders went from two to three dimensions. This led me to quaternions. They are numbers which have four dimensional characteristics. Quaternions are one of my favorite mathematical explorations as they connect to almost all of my favorite subjects. They are mathematical extensions of complex numbers which deal with abstract and philosophical thought because they are four dimensional. Moreover, they are highly involved in programming with three dimensional graphics. This entirely fascinates me since all the subjects I’m interested in can be connected numerous different

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