In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions.
By imagining the contact of beings from different dimensions, the author fully exploited the power of the analogy between the limitations of humans and those of his t.
Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial science-fiction favorite.
In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions