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Flatland

Flatland

Flatland
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Flatland Paperback - 1991

by Edwin Abbott Abbott

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Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1991. Book. Very Good. Soft cover. 103pp, illustrated. With a new introduction by Thomas Banchoff. A mathematical adventure set in a world of one plane. REar cover creased at one corner. Very Good.
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  • Title Flatland
  • Author Edwin Abbott Abbott
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition Reprint
  • Condition Used - Very good
  • Pages 144
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Princeton University Press, Princeton, NJ
  • Publication date 1991
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Bookseller's Inventory # 001468
  • ISBN 9780691025254 / 0691025258
  • Weight 0.43 lbs (0.20 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.5 x 5.5 x 0.43 in (21.59 x 13.97 x 1.09 cm)
  • Reading level 1280
  • Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
  • Library of Congress Catalogue Number 90028266
  • Dewey Decimal Code FIC

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From the publisher

In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial science-fiction favorite. By imagining the contact of beings from different dimensions, the author fully exploited the power of the analogy between the limitations of humans and those of his two-dimensional characters.

A first-rate fictional guide to the concept of multiple dimensions of space, the book will also appeal to those who are interested in computer graphics. This field, which literally makes higher dimensions seeable, has aroused a new interest in visualization. We can now manipulate objects in four dimensions and observe their three-dimensional slices tumbling on the computer screen. But how do we interpret these images? In his introduction, Thomas Banchoff points out that there is no better way to begin exploring the problem of understanding higher-dimensional slicing phenomena than reading this classic novel of the Victorian era.

About the author

Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926), the author of more than fifty books on classics, theology, history, and Shakespeare, was headmaster of the City of London School and one of the leading educators of his time. Thomas Banchoff is professor emeritus of mathematics at Brown University and author of Beyond the Third Dimension.

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