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		"Happy are the people whose annals are blank in history books." - Thomas Carlyle (1795 - 1881)

	Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
	by Edwin Abbott Abbott, Alan P. Lightman (Illustrator)

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Product Details

Format: Paperback, 118 pages

Publisher: Penguin USA

ISBN: 014043531X

Release Date: Jan 12, 1988

Average Reader Review:

(Based on 5 reviews.)

From The Publisher
In the century since its publication in England, Flatland has charmed and fascinated generations of readers with its witty satire of Victorian society and its unique insights, by analogy, into the fourth dimension. The author, posing as a square inhabitant of a two-dimensional world, first describes his country -- its geography and architecture, its class structure and social customs -- in terms reminiscent of Gulliver's Travels. He then tells of his visions of Lineland and Pointland, his trip to Spaceland, and his fate when he preaches the third dimension to his countrymen.

We in the 1980s have no more practical need than did people in the 1880s to visualize the fourth dimension. The world of space-time can be explored mathematically. But here in this little book is the opportunity to explore it intuitively. Edwin A. Abbott, through A Square, is the best of guides. For many years to come Flatland will be read for insight and entertainment by students of mathematics, philosophy, and science, indeed, by anyone who enjoys an intellectually engaging exercise of the imagination.

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Century-old classic of British letters that charmed and fascinated generations of readers; witty satire of Victorian society and unique insights into the fourth dimension.

Number of Reviews: 5 Average Rating:

Polygon Storm!

-- A reviewer, March 13, 2000

Also Recommended: Sphereland, The Numerology of Dr. Matrix, Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker quintology, The Phantom Tollbooth

Excellent Choice for Student Teachers

-- Brian, January 2, 2001

It was a slight let down

-- Joe Bloggs, a 22 yr old Ph D Student from MIT, November 2, 1999

Also Recommended: But Jocks, Ass Monkies

Excellent Guide to Multi-dimensional Space

-- John C. Longnecker, Professor of Mathematics, Emeritus, February 8, 2000

Also Recommended: Sphereland, *Any* of Isaac Asimov, Trilogy of the Rings

Sentient Geometry

-- Susanna, a 19-year-old college freshman, February 23, 2001

Also Recommended: Sphereland, The Fourth Dimension: A Guided Tour of the Higher Universes

The Reader's Catalog
A two-dimensional world

The Word On The Street
The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions. (From the Forward) —Isaac Asimov

	Limitations	ix
	Introduction	xv
	Preface to the Second and Revised Edition, 1884, by the Editor	xix
Part I	This World
1	Of the Nature of Flatland	1
2	Of the Climate and Houses in Flatland	4
3	Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland	7
4	Concerning the Women	11
5	Of Our Methods of Recognizing One Another	18
6	Of Recognition by Sight	24
7	Concerning Irregular Figures	31
8	Of the Ancient Practice of Painting	36
9	Of the Universal Colour Bill	39
10	Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition	44
11	Concerning Our Priests	50
12	Of the Doctrine of Our Priests	53
Part II	Other Worlds
13	How I Had a Vision of Lineland	61
14	How I Vainly Tried to Explain the Nature of Flatland	67
15	Concerning a Strange from Spaceland	74
16	How the Stranger Vainly Endeavoured to Reveal to Me in Words the Mysteries of Spaceland	78
17	How the Sphere, Having in Vain Tried Words, Resorted to Deeds	89
18	How I Came to Spaceland, and What I Saw There	92
19	How, Though the Sphere Shewed Me Other Mysteries of Spaceland, I Still Desired More; and What Came of It	98
20	How the Sphere Encouraged Me in a Vision	107
21	How I Tried to Teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to My Grandson, and with What Success	111
22	How I Then Tried to Diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by Other Means, and of the Result	115

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