Flatland Paperback / softback - 1998
by Edwin Abbott
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- Title Flatland
- Author Edwin Abbott
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition New
- Pages 144
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Penguin Classics, N.Y
- Publication date 1998-06-01
- Features Bibliography
- Bookseller's Inventory # A9780140435313
- ISBN 9780140435313 / 014043531X
- Weight 0.3 lbs (0.14 kg)
- Dimensions 7.6 x 5 x 0.5 in (19.30 x 12.70 x 1.27 cm)
- Age range 18 to UP years
- Grade levels 13 - UP
- Reading level 1280
- Category Literature - Classics / Criticism
- Library of Congress subjects Space and time, Perception
- Library of Congress Catalogue Number 98005393
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
- Quantity available 6
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Summary
"Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it … and you will have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen."
Narrated by A. Square, Flatland is Edwin A. Abbott's delightful mathematical fantasy about life in a two-dimensional world. All existence is limited to length and breadth in Flatland, its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. Abbott's amiable narrator provides an overview of this fantastic world-its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs, and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his worldview is forever shattered.
Written more than a century ago, Flatland conceals within its brilliant parody of Victorian society speculations about the universe that resonate in Einstein's theory of relativity as well as the current "string-theory" of nature.
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