![]() Instructive, entertaining, and stimulating to the imagination. 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. thank you for your continued support and wish. 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. Read Flatland: a romance of many dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott available from Rakuten Kobo. Square, 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. A Romance of Many Dimensions With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE. Abbott (1838-1926), it describes the journeys of A. ![]() ![]() The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. ![]()
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