Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions Paperback - 1998
by Abbott, Edwin A
- New
- Paperback
Description
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Details
- Title Flatland: A Romance in Many Dimensions
- Author Abbott, Edwin A
- Binding Paperback
- Edition reprint
- Condition New
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated, N.Y
- Date 1998
- Bookseller's Inventory # 014043531X
- ISBN 9780140435313 / 014043531X
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.5 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 1.27 cm)
- Ages 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1280
- Library of Congress subjects Fourth dimension
- Library of Congress Catalog Number 98005393
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
Narrated by A. Square, Flatland is Edwin A. Abbott's delightful mathematical fantasy about life in a two-dimensional world. All existence is limited to length and breadth in Flatland, its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. Abbott's amiable narrator provides an overview of this fantastic world-its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs, and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his worldview is forever shattered.
Written more than a century ago, Flatland conceals within its brilliant parody of Victorian society speculations about the universe that resonate in Einstein's theory of relativity as well as the current "string-theory" of nature.
