Edwin A. Abbott's hallucinatory tale has captivated readers for more than a hundred yearsincluding contemporary scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. In this mind-expanding satire, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions describes a two-dimensional world organized by strict caste system of geometrical forms.
The narrator, A. Square, introduces us to Flatland before describing his revelatory explorations of Lineland, a one-dimensional world, and Pointland, a world of no dimensions, and the hitherto inconceivable three-dimensional world of Spaceland, through which he is ushered by his Virgil-like guide, Sphere. In Flatland, Square is regarded as a heretic and imprisoned for his belief in the existence of a third, and possibly even a fourth, dimension.
Although it did not achieve popular success on its publication in 1884, Flatland gained a broad audience after the publication of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which focused attention on the concept of a fourth dimension. The book enjoyed another renaissance with the advent of modern science fiction in the late 1930s and is now widely acknowledged as a pioneering work of mathematical fiction.Includes the authors original illustrations and a short biography.
| ISBN: | 9781733561631 |
| Publication date: | 10th August 2019 |
| Author: | Abbott, Edwin A |
| Publisher: | Warbler Press |
| Format: | Ebook |
Edwin A. Abbott's hallucinatory tale has captivated readers for more than a hundred yearsincluding contemporary scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking.
Flatland features in the following genres: Modern and Contemporary Fiction, Science Fiction
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Flatland was written by Abbott, Edwin A and published by Warbler Press
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