Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions - 9781733561624
Warbler Classics
ISBN13:
9781733561624
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In this mind-expanding satire, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions describes a two-dimensional world organized by strict caste system of geometrical forms. The narrator, A. Square, introduces us to Flatland before recounting his revelatory explorations of Lineland, a one-dimensional world, and Pointland, a world of no dimensions, and the hitherto inconceivable three-dimensional world of Spaceland, through which he is ushered by his Virgil-like guide, Sphere. In Flatland, Square is regarded as a heretic and imprisoned for his belief in the existence of a third, and possibly even a fourth, dimension.Abbott's hallucinatory tale has captivated readers for more than a hundred years-including contemporary scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. Although it did not achieve popular success on its debut in 1884, it gained a broad audience after the publication of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which focused attention on the concept of a fourth dimension. The book enjoyed another renaissance with the advent of modern science fiction in the late 1930s and is now widely acknowledged as a pioneering work of mathematical fiction.
- | Author: Edwin A Abbott
- | Publisher: Warbler Classics
- | Publication Date: Aug 10, 2019
- | Number of Pages: 119 pages
- | Language: English
- | Binding: Paperback
- | ISBN-10: 1733561625
- | ISBN-13: 9781733561624
- Author:
- Edwin A Abbott
- Publisher:
- Warbler Classics
- Publication Date:
- Aug 10, 2019
- Number of pages:
- 119 pages
- Language:
- English
- Binding:
- Paperback
- ISBN-10:
- 1733561625
- ISBN-13:
- 9781733561624