Burger, Dionys
Entry updated 12 September 2022. Tagged: Author.
Anglicized form of the name of Dutch physicist, lecturer and author Dionijs Burger (1892-1987). His Bolland: Een roman van gekromde ruimten en uitdijend heelal (1957; trans Cornelia J Rheinboldt as Sphereland: A Fantasy about Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe 1965) is a Mathematical fable written as a sequel to Flatland (1884) by Edwin A Abbott. As indicated in the subtitle, Burger extends the Flatland fable into higher dimensions and Cosmology. [PN/DRL]
see also: Benelux.
Dionijs Burger
born Amsterdam, Netherlands: 10 July 1892
died Netherlands: 19 April 1987
works
- Bolland: Een roman van gekromde ruimten en uitdijend heelal ('s-Gravenhage, Netherlands: Blommendaal, 1957) [binding unknown/]
- Sphereland: A Fantasy about Curved Spaces and an Expanding Universe (New York: Crowell, 1965) [trans by Cornelia J Rheinboldt of the above: hb/Rus Anderson]
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