I'd recommend Flatland: The movie to any maths teacher, any time. The central character, Hex, is female, and so is one of the villains. They poke someone in the eye with their sharp end, but fully-fledged polygons. Women are not degenerate line segments, who have to emit warning wails lest The story also receives a welcome gender facelift. It misses out on some of the finer points, but the main message, mathematical and otherwise, remains intact, and the simplification is probably permissible given the target audience. The movie doesn't stick to the story in the book, in fact it greatly simplifies it. I watched the film with a non-mathematician, who was duly fascinated and afterwards spent some time mulling over the concept of four, five, and even infinitely many dimensions. Without ever giving you the feeling that you're being taught something. The maths bits - how to make the abstract move from one, then to two, and then to three dimensions - are discreetly dropped into the plot The graphics are amazing in places (it was great to see the Mandelbrot set unfold the full power of its beauty) and the movie is worth watching if only to see the heroes' fantastic journey into the third dimension. Sheen, Kristen Bell, Tony Hale, Michael York, and Joe Estevez, is aimed primarily at teachers and educators who want to introduce their students to the amazing world of mathematical abstraction. The animated film version, featuring the voices of Martin This beautiful story is at the same time a maths lesson, a social satire, and a tribute to our wonderful ability to transcend our limitations. The original book Flatland: a romance of many dimensions was written in 1884 by Edwin Abbott Abbott (see the Plus review). This is dangerous territory: any mention of a third dimension is strictly illegal, and, unbeknownst to Hex, linked to the true Inhabiting a two-dimensional world populated by polygons and ruled by circular tyrants, a bright young hexagon, through sheer mathematical willpower, imagines a third dimension. Flatland: The movie is based on one of the best mathematical tales ever written.

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