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  1. Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Monash University, P.O. Box 28M, 3800, Victoria, Australia

    Burkard Polster

  2. Institut für Analysis, TU Braunschweig, D-38106, Braunschweig, Germany

    Andreas E. Schroth

  3. Department of Mathematics, University of Gent, 9000, Gent, Belgium

    Hendrik Van Maldeghem

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Dedicated to my dear grandfather Edwin E. Abbot (1838-1926), the author of the infamousFlatland—a Romance in Many Dimensions [1].

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Polster, B., Schroth, A.E. & Van Maldeghem, H. Generalized Flatland. The Mathematical Intelligencer 23, 33–47 (2001). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF03024601

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