From Brain Pickings:
By: Maria Popova
“Moral: The vector belongs to the spoils.”

In 1963, two years after he penned his timeless classic
The Phantom Tollbooth,
Norton Justerwrote and illustrated
The Dot and the Line: A Romance in Lower Mathematics (
public library) — the quirky and infinitely wonderful love story that unfolds in a one-dimensional universe called Lineland where women are dots and men are lines; a hopeful straight line falls hopelessly in love with a dot out of his league, who only has eyes for a sleazy squiggle, and sets about wooing her. Inspired by the Victorian novella
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, it’s an endearing and witty fable of persistence and passion, and a creative masterwork at the intersection of mathematics, philosophy, and graphic design.
To woo the dot, the line decides to master the myriad shapes capable of expressing his full potential./.../
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