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| Title | Flatland |
| Author | Abbott, Edwin A. |
| Asset Number | 00448 |
| Publisher | Penguin Classics |
| ISBN | 9780140435313 |
| Published Date | 1998 |
| Edition | 1 |
| Printing | 29 |
| Description | Softcover.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions.
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 [sic - ed.], 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." |
| Category | Physics |
| Epoch | Modern |
| Date Acquired | 12/12/2019 |
| Condition | (2) Very Good |
