Flatland
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Edwin A. Abbott's hallucinatory tale has captivated readers for more than a hundred years-including 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 author's original illustrations and a short biography.
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Abbott, E. A. (2019). Flatland. [United States], Warbler Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation (style guide)Abbott, Edwin A.. 2019. Flatland. [United States], Warbler Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities Citation (style guide)Abbott, Edwin A., Flatland. [United States], Warbler Press, 2019.
MLA Citation (style guide)Abbott, Edwin A.. Flatland. [United States], Warbler Press, 2019.
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