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Flatland Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Edwin Abbott; Lila Marz Harper (Editor)


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Flatland (1884) is an influential mathematical fantasy that simultaneously provides an introduction to non-Euclidean geometry and a satire on the Victorian class structure, issues of science and faith, and the role of women. A classic of early science fiction, the novel takes place in a world of two dimensions where all the characters are geometric shapes. The narrator, A Square, is a naïve, respectable citizen who is faced with proof of the existence of three dimensions when he is visited by a sphere and is forced to see the limitations of his world.

The introduction to this Broadview Edition provides context for the book's references to Victorian culture and religion, mathematical history, and the history of philosophy. The appendices contain contemporary reviews; extracts from the work of fellow mathematical fantasy writer/mathematician Charles Hinton; Hermann von Helmboltz's "The Axioms of Geometry" (1870); and autobiographical passages from Abbott's The Kernel and the Husk (1886).

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  • Title Flatland
  • Author Edwin Abbott; Lila Marz Harper (Editor)
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 252
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Broadview Press Inc, Ontario
  • Date 2010
  • Illustrated Yes
  • ISBN 9781551116907 / 1551116901
  • Reading level 1280
  • Library of Congress subjects Fourth dimension
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010481619
  • Dewey Decimal Code 823.8

About the author

Lila Marz Harper is Senior Lecturer in the Department of English at Central Washington University.

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