This special edition is a Distinguished vintage reproduction, of the 1884 satirical novella Flatland , by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott.
Through the book, Abbott skewered hierarchical Victorian values while simul�taneously giving a glimpse of the mathematics of higher dimensions.-Science News.
So if you don\'t have yet this book at home, go ahead and buy this edition.``-Zentralblatt MATH In 1884, Edwin Abbott wrote a strange and enchanting novella called Flatland, in which a square who lives in a two-dimensional world comes to comprehend the existence of a third dimension but is unable to persuade his compatriots of his discovery.
Square, a citizen of an entirely two-dimensional world.`` -The Washington Post Book World ``Flatland has remained of interest for over a century precisely because of its ability to engage its readers on so Many different planes in so Many different dimensions.``-Victorian Studies ``This reprint of Abbott\'s Flatland adventures contains an Intro�duction by Thomas Banchoff which is worth reading on its own. ``One of the most imaginative, delightful and, yes, touching works of mathematics, this slender 1884 book purports to be the memoir of A. . .
The Square dreams about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland) inhabited by ``lustrous points,`` and attempts to convince the realm\'s monarch of a second dimension; but is unable to do so.
The narrator is a square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions.
The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, whereof women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides.
Writing pseudonymously as ``A Square,`` the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella\'s more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.
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This special edition is a Distinguished vintage reproduction, of the 1884 satirical novella Flatland , by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott
