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Flatland by Edwin Abbott
Category: Sci-Fi & Fantasy Fiction | Series: Penguin Science Fiction Ser.
A fantastically unique work of science fiction that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory. A work that still poses provocative questions about perception and reality, Flatland is a brilliant parody of Victorian society where all existence ...Show more
Flatland by Edwin Abbott
Category: Classics | Series: Penguin Classics Ser.
A 'romance of many dimensions' that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory, the "Penguin Classics" edition of Edwin A. Abbott's "Flatland" introduction by Alan Lightman. A work that continues to pose provocative questions about perception and ...Show more
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott
Category: Classics | Series: Oxford World's Classics
'Upward, yet not Northward.' How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful 'romance of many dimensions' explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissa ...Show more
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott
Category: Fiction
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 scienc ...Show more
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