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Flatland--A Romance of Many Dimensions

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Title:Flatland--A Romance of Many Dimensions
Author:
Abbott, Edwin Abbott   
(1 of 2 for author by title)
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Published:   1884
Publisher:R. Clay, Sons, and Taylor
Tags:fiction, mathematics, Satire, Film Adaptation
Description:

This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. It describes the journeys of A. 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.

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. 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. [Suggest a different description.]

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