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Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions (Hardcover, 2nd And REV ed.)
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Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions (Hardcover, 2nd And REV ed.)
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A satirical novella is set in the world of Flatland. Edwin Abbott
Abbott writes pseudonymously as "A. Square" a plane form living in
a two dimensional reality in order to offer pointed observations on
the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. His place in the social
hierarchy is in the middle class, and he describes effectively the
other classes within his world. The dangerous Women, or single
lines, the dull yet powerful Isosceles Triangles, or soldiers and
laymen, the Equilateral Triangle, or tradesmen, the Nobility class,
or Polygon class, and the Circles, or Priests, all combine to make
a social order within Flatland. Their existence is complete with
class strife, discrimination, alteration, regulation, wars, and
power struggles, just as any other society in existence. When A.
Square dreams of another world, Lineland, he is struck by a need to
explain to the inhabitants the error of their one dimensional
viewpoints and introduce them to a second dimension. Noted science
writer Isaac Asimov described Flatland as "The best introduction
one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions" in a
foreword to one publication. As such, the work is still popular
amongst mathematics, physics and computer science students.
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