This article presents an example of discovering an idea through creative play. After some trial and error, I drew a wonderful image, which I later learned was a two-dimensional view of a four-dimensional shape called tesseract.

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  • L’Engle, Madeleine. 1962. A Wrinkle in Time. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

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