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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions)

Brand: Dover Publications
ISBN 9780486272634
EAN: 0800759272631
Category: #44756 in Paperback (Classics)
Price: $3.00  (Customer Reviews)
Dimension: 7.80 x 5.00 x 0.30 inches
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This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), it describes the journeys of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status.
Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms, Square has adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions) and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions—a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is not only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space. "Instructive, entertaining, and stimulating to the imagination." — Mathematics Teacher.

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  • paperback, Flatland, by Edwin A. Abbott
  • math physics, satirical, fiction, educational, dimensions

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