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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions)
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions) Paperback - 1992

by Edwin A. Abbott

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Dover Publications, 1992-09-21. Paperback. Very Good. 0.4000 8.2000 5.1000. Paperback in very good condition. All inside pages are in great shape. Minor shelf wear to the cover.
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  • Title Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions)
  • Author Edwin A. Abbott
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition [ Edition: repri
  • Condition Used - Very Good
  • Pages 96
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Dover Publications, Mineola, New York, U.S.A.
  • Date 1992-09-21
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # mon0000051279
  • ISBN 9780486272634 / 048627263X
  • Weight 0.18 lbs (0.08 kg)
  • Dimensions 8 x 5 x 0.3 in (20.32 x 12.70 x 0.76 cm)
  • Ages 14 to UP years
  • Grade levels 9 - UP
  • Reading level 1280
  • Library of Congress subjects Fourth dimension
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 92018494
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

Summary

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, though written in 1884, is still considered useful in thinking about multiple dimensions. It is also seen as a satirical depiction of Victorian society and its hierarchies.A square, who is a resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, dreams of the one-dimensional Lineland. He attempts to convince the monarch of Lineland of the possibility of another dimension, but the monarch cannot see outside the line. The square is then visited himself by a Sphere from three-dimensional Spaceland, who must show the square Spaceland before he can conceive it. As more dimensions enter the scene, the story's discussion of fixed thought and the kind of inhuman action which accompanies it intensifies.

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About the author

Fifty Years in the Flatland
2012 will mark the 50th anniversary in print with Dover of one of the most significant and influential books of the past century and a half. The mathematical, satirical, and religious allegory Flatland by a little-known but immensely prolific Victorian English schoolmaster and theologian Edwin Abbott Abbott, was first published anonymously in England in 1884 -- Abbott wrote it under the name A Square. The unique geometrical romance which is Flatland posited a world and its inhabitants that exist in only two dimensions and forces the reader captivated by the originality of this central idea to think deeply about the meaning of such a world. Generations of readers and students swept into the romance and fascination of geometry and other branches of mathematics and philosophy owe their introduction to this world to Flatland, which continues to entertain and stimulate new readers today, still going strong 126 years after the first edition was launched. Abbott revised the text somewhat for a second edition published just a few months after the first. Dover's 1952 edition was the first American reprinting of the amended second English edition and was published with a new Introduction by physicist Banesh Hoffmann.

From the Book:
I CALL our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows -- only hard and with luminous edges -- and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said 'my universe': but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things.