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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