—And He Built a Crooked House—

About “—And He Built a Crooked House—”

"—And He Built a Crooked House—" is a science fiction short story by Robert A. Heinlein, first published in Astounding Science Fiction in February 1941. It was later reprinted in Fantasia Mathematica in 1958 and included in the collections The Unpleasant Profession of Jonathan Hoag in 1959 and The Best of Robert Heinlein in 1973. The story follows an architect named Quintus Teal, who designs a house based on the net of a tesseract to reduce real estate costs. The title references the nursery rhyme "There Was a Crooked Man." The narrative explores mathematical concepts through a fictional scenario. (Summary adapted from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0.)