Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #858721 in Books
• Published on: 2007-06-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 108 pages

From the Back Cover
What if there existed a world consisting of only two spatial dimensions? This mind-bending supposition is the jumping-off point for one of the literature's most celebrated oddities: the 1884 novella Flatland, one of the earliest instances of modern speculative fiction, and perhaps the only instance of mathematical satire.

In Flatland, a lowly square, whose polygonal betters exhibit more sides, discovers pathways to other worlds where, alas, thinking is as rigidly defined as in his own. Class structures, the position of women (who are but mere lines), and the stolidness of religious and political leaders are sent up with chilly aplomb.

Beloved by fans of science fiction, students of dimensional physics, and readers of Victorian literature, this belongs on the shelf of any serious home library.

About the Author
British teacher and theologian EDWIN ABBOTT ABBOTT (1838-1926) is also the author of Shakespearian Grammar (1870), The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman (1892), and St. Thomas of Canterbury, His Death and Miracles (1898).

Customer Reviews

All the illustrations are missing
I can't comment on the actual content myself as it was bought for my son.
However all the illustrations are missing from this edition and there are 30 odd blank pages at the end. So when the text says refer to Fig 1, Fig 1 is not there. Could be in the 5th dimension perhaps
That's physics for you.

I shall be returning the book