Word: geometricism
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FLATLAND - A Square - Little, Brown ($1.50). Some 40 years ago, critics hurled brickbats and bouquets, hurled them hard, at this small book, whose pseudonymous author was then headmaster of the City of London School, the Rev. Edwin Abbott Abbott, M.A., D.D. Now the book is republished with a foreword by...
At City College of New York-The Human Significance of Mathematics (Numbers, Geometric Beauty, etc.).
There are many grains of sand in an hourglass and they fall singly, but eventually the hour is passed. So with the hour of crossword puzzles. Last week, the Daily News (Manhattan), following its parent, The Chicago Tribune (TIME, July 6), ceased publishing the little gems of geometric delight.
A large gallery at Hartford saw Tennis Champion William T. Tilden II make his arms into pointed complements, while his body-the sum of their two right angles-remained a straight line that bounded from point to point of an oblong parallelogram of green turf, other factor of this geometric...
A site was chosen at Colophor in Asia Minor, and the work of excavating was begun there in the early part of 1922. In spite of difficulties and interruptions of long periods, the excavations have been carried on, and interesting results have been obtained. Very early pottery of a geometric...