Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions)
by Edwin A. Abbott
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Author: Edwin A. AbbottEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Published: 1992-09-21
ISBN: 048627263X
Number of pages: 96
Publisher: Dover Publications
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Book Review: A Classic Geometry Diversion
Summary: 5 Stars
A must-read for all who appreciate geometry. Expect an older style of writing. Realize that it is not purely a mathematical book, but has a Victorian theme, too. Appreciate the geometry concepts in their historic context. Look at the original publication date of Flatland (not this edition), and imagine the author contemplating the fourth dimension back then. Put yourself in this frame of mind, most suitable for truly enjoying the concepts and details of this classic work. A must-read if you enjoy geometry. This thrift edition is a bargain, too.
Summary of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions)
Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction-charmingly illustrated by author-describes the journeys of A. Square, a resident of Flatland, and his adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions). A Square also entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions-a revolutionary idea for which he is banished from Spaceland.Unless you're a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life, these are the ones. Taken together, they form a couple of accessible and charming explanations of geometry and physics for the curious non-mathematician. Flatland, which is also available under separate cover, was published in 1880 and imagines a two-dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes who think their planar world is all there is. But one Flatlander, a Square, discovers the existence of a third dimension and the limits of his world's assumptions about reality and comes to understand the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. The further mathematical fantasy, Sphereland, published 60 years later, revisits the world of Flatland in time to explore the mind-bending theories created by Albert Einstein, whose work so completely altered the scientific understanding of space, time, and matter. Among Einstein's many challenges to common sense were the ideas of curved space, an expanding universe and the fact that light does not travel in a straight line. Without use of the mathematical formulae that bar most non-scientists from an understanding of Einstein's theories, Sphereland gives lay readers ways to start comprehending these confusing but fundamental questions of our reality.
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