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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Hardcover
HumorScience FictionClassic Fiction
ISBN13: 9781515435716
Publisher: SMK Books
Published: Apr 3 2018
Pages: 96
Weight: 0.69
Height: 0.38 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a brilliant little classic of mathematical fantasy, social satire, and speculative imagination. Narrated by A Square, a respectable citizen of a two-dimensional world, the book begins as a witty tour of Flatland's strange society: its lines, triangles, squares, polygons, rigid class hierarchy, gender prejudice, customs, laws, and dangerously narrow assumptions about reality. But when A Square encounters the possibility of a third dimension, his entire understanding of existence is overturned.
First published in 1884, Edwin A. Abbott's strange and elegant book has endured because it works on several levels at once. It is a playful introduction to dimensions and geometry, a satire of Victorian social order, a fable about intellectual limitation, and an early work of speculative fiction about realities beyond ordinary perception. Its central idea remains wonderfully simple and unsettling: what seems impossible may only be invisible from where we stand.
Readers interested in classic science fiction, mathematical fiction, geometry, satire, Victorian literature, and books that use fantasy to challenge the limits of thought will find Flatland as fresh and provocative as ever. It remains one of the rare books that can delight students, philosophers, mathematicians, science fiction readers, and anyone who has ever wondered whether reality might contain more than the mind is trained to see.
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