While Googling my way through the interwebs, I came across the 2008 Western Australian Certificate of Education sample examination for Stage 2 Biological Sciences. It contains this diagram: If you’re wondering, the entire hierarchy is drawn from Umberto Eco‘s novel Baudolino.
I just read how the Cauchy-Riemann equations can be derived from a (complex 1-manifold/real 2-manifold/Riemann surface), and I think I understood it. Yay!
I recently found out that the copyright on this book expired in 2001. Secondly, I found a site that had all the text on it. Since I’ve liked this book since I was a child, I decided to reformat it and share it on my site. You can find it here: An Island to Oneself. [...]
