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The phrase is the turning point and premise of this amazing, simply delightful little Math book. Math? That is our son's most disliked subject. Wait, The Dot and the Line is not a Math book! It is a hilarious comedy! But is that all? It is a romance, a story of love deeply felt, pursued, capable of provoking great things in the soul. In a little math book? Is it possible? Yes, it is.

Our Classic Languages-loving son reads it aloud every time this book visits us from the library. (Readers, please remind me to purchase a copy for his next birthday). He suffers with the straight, dull and unbending line when driven to the "edge" (of the paper-- the line is drawn on the edge of the page) as the "perfect by every measure" dot flirts around with the anarchist, slothful squiggle. Moved by great love, the line at first attempts to show its own grandeur by asserting its importance in art, world politics, sports. To no avail: the dot is not impressed. Then the unimaginable happens: when almost giving up, the line, using great concentration, becomes able to make angles!

What follows next is what makes this little book a great book: the enthusiastic line makes more and more angles in a chaotic frenzy, until... it realizes that chaos without order leads nowhere. It stops, straightens itself again and it discovers that freedom is not a license for chaos. From then on, life changes for the line: exercising great control and virtue, it discovers a new world:
For months he practiced in secret. Soon he was making squares and triangles, hexagons, parallelograms, rhomboids, polyhedrons, trapezoids, parallelepiped, decagons, tetragrams and an infinite number of other shapes so complex that he had to letter his sides and angles to keep his place. Before long he had learned to carefully control ellipses, circles and complex curves...

Ah, the virtue of the discipline of Mathematics! The beauty of its exact angles and dimensions. The rhythm, art and music of what it is able to create, using exercise and order! I will refrain from spoiling it completely for the new reader, but let me quote his final "moral of the story": to the vector, the spoils. This type of humor is the best!

The back jacket, after telling us that the author, among other things, runs a support group for negative numbers (one can glimpse Mr. Juster's opinion on the state of the culture in the 60s) mentions an award winning film, and I found it on You Tube. I was happy to see that that the screenplay was also written by the author but I warn you that the book is much better. This new edition has wonderful graphics and some different pictures as well.


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Dot and the Line Romance in Lower Mathematics Norton Juster 9780394733524 Books Reviews

I was given this book as a teenager, and never forgot it. I used to ask other people if they knew about it, but few seemed to have ever heard of it. I am an artist, and in spite of the use of 'math' in the title, thought this book was about art.

I missed ALL the math info and puns. (It was interesting reading the reviews of the math and science readers.) I can only tell you that the cleaver drawings tell stories that are universal. They work as well for art and life as they seem to work for math.

I have now given this book to many people. Every one of them has thanked me.

This is my favorite gift to give away for Valentine's day.
I experienced the "joys of emergency surgery" a while ago, and a dear friend knew just what I needed during recovery two grocery sacks full of books. A falling-apart-at-the-seams copy of "The Dot and the Line" was in the first sack.

It was SO wonderful and even funny -- at a time when it hurt to laugh! The book is short ("little kid's book length") and you really feel for the line (and get rather disgusted with the self-centered squiggle) in those few pages. The two-color, full-bleed illustrations are perfect and really add to the book's impact.

I recommend the book for intelligent adults... and perhaps 10- to 14-year-old kids, if they are bright and independent (or if you want to encourage them to think critically about what it means to be "cool").
A university president read this book to a big group at a conference. Had to buy a copy to share with my family. Well done.
I first came across the title last year watching the TCM channel early one morning. Suddenly it appeared in the middle of some end of the movie features. It was absolutely delightful. I bought the book for my nephews, but could not find it on video. For almost a year now, I've been trying to get anyone's attention, including the author's, TCM and some animators. It was supposed to be shown Feb. 14 on TCM, but I didn't become aware of until Feb. 20th, and was supposed to shown again March 6th. It wasn't. However, supposedly it will be released as a short on the Doris Day "Glass Bottom Boat" DVD scheduled for April 26, 2005. I'll keep my fingers crossed. Too bad doesn't provide some other mechanism for me to note this to others than as a review.
Genius.

That would be my one word review, but for those of you who want more I would call this one of the best picture books I've ever read. The story is both simple and complex, much like mathematics. It's the story of a line who's in love with a dot and the plot is filled with all the agony of unrequited love for the entire 80 pages, which will take less than 15 minutes to read. But these will be the most amusing 15 minutes of your day as you explore the theme of love through lower mathematics.
This is a delightful book that I first read in the . . . . 1970s? Anyway, it is a delightful tale of a dot who falls in love with a line and comes with cute drawings to illustrate the story about love. It can be read in minutes and makes a nice gift for someone who delights in the unexpected.
This book inspired the award winning cartoon, The Dot & the Line - one of my absolute favorites! The book is so clever, unique and quite charming. Short and sweet. There's nothing else out there quite like it. I highly recommend! Also, if you like this, you may also enjoy a book called Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott (older demographic but a similar character development via visual geometry and geometric concepts).
The phrase is the turning point and premise of this amazing, simply delightful little Math book. Math? That is our son's most disliked subject. Wait, The Dot and the Line is not a Math book! It is a hilarious comedy! But is that all? It is a romance, a story of love deeply felt, pursued, capable of provoking great things in the soul. In a little math book? Is it possible? Yes, it is.

Our Classic Languages-loving son reads it aloud every time this book visits us from the library. (Readers, please remind me to purchase a copy for his next birthday). He suffers with the straight, dull and unbending line when driven to the "edge" (of the paper-- the line is drawn on the edge of the page) as the "perfect by every measure" dot flirts around with the anarchist, slothful squiggle. Moved by great love, the line at first attempts to show its own grandeur by asserting its importance in art, world politics, sports. To no avail the dot is not impressed. Then the unimaginable happens when almost giving up, the line, using great concentration, becomes able to make angles!

What follows next is what makes this little book a great book the enthusiastic line makes more and more angles in a chaotic frenzy, until... it realizes that chaos without order leads nowhere. It stops, straightens itself again and it discovers that freedom is not a license for chaos. From then on, life changes for the line exercising great control and virtue, it discovers a new world
For months he practiced in secret. Soon he was making squares and triangles, hexagons, parallelograms, rhomboids, polyhedrons, trapezoids, parallelepiped, decagons, tetragrams and an infinite number of other shapes so complex that he had to letter his sides and angles to keep his place. Before long he had learned to carefully control ellipses, circles and complex curves...

Ah, the virtue of the discipline of Mathematics! The beauty of its exact angles and dimensions. The rhythm, art and music of what it is able to create, using exercise and order! I will refrain from spoiling it completely for the new reader, but let me quote his final "moral of the story" to the vector, the spoils. This type of humor is the best!

The back jacket, after telling us that the author, among other things, runs a support group for negative numbers (one can glimpse Mr. Juster's opinion on the state of the culture in the 60s) mentions an award winning film, and I found it on You Tube. I was happy to see that that the screenplay was also written by the author but I warn you that the book is much better. This new edition has wonderful graphics and some different pictures as well.