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Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-28 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", [1] the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.
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Download or read book Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions Annotated written by Edwin Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2019-12-17 with total page 134 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.Several films have been made from the story, including the feature film Flatland (2007). Other efforts have been short or experimental films, including one narrated by Dudley Moore and the short films Flatland: The Movie (2007) and Flatland 2: Sphereland (2012).
Book Synopsis Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions "Annotated Classic Edition" by : Edwin Abbott Abbott
Download or read book Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions "Annotated Classic Edition" written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-26 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Narrated by A. Square, Flatland is Edwin A. Abbott's delightful mathematical fantasy about life in a two-dimensional world. All existence is limited to length and breadth in Flatland, its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. Abbott's amiable narrator provides an overview of this fantastic world--its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs, and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his worldview is forever shattered.
Book Synopsis Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions Illustrated by : Edwin Abbott Abbott
Download or read book Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions Illustrated written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-24 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square" the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.
Book Synopsis The Annotated Flatland by : Ian Stewart
Download or read book The Annotated Flatland written by Ian Stewart and published by Basic Books. This book was released on 2008-07-31 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland is a unique, delightful satire that has charmed readers for over a century. Published in 1884 by the English clergyman and headmaster Edwin A. Abbott, it is the fanciful tale of A. Square, a two-dimensional being who is whisked away by a mysterious visitor to The Land of Three Dimensions, an experience that forever alters his worldview. Like the original, Ian Stewart's commentary takes readers on a strange and wonderful journey. With clarity and wit, Stewart illuminates Abbott's numerous Victorian references and touches on such diverse topics as ancient Babylon, Karl Marx, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Mt. Everest, H.G. Wells, and phrenology. The Annotated Flatland makes fascinating connections between Flatland and Abbott's era, resulting in a classic to rival Abbott's own, and a book that will inspire and delight curious readers for generations to come.
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Download or read book Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions written by Edwin A Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-17 with total page 140 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London.
Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-25 with total page 106 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland is a unique, delightful satire that has charmed readers for over a century. Published in 1884 by the English clergyman and headmaster Edwin A. Abbott, it is the fanciful tale of A. Square, a two-dimensional being who is whisked away by a mysterious visitor to The Land of Three Dimensions, an experience that forever alters his worldview. Like the original, Ian Stewart's commentary takes readers on a strange and wonderful journey. With clarity and wit, Stewart illuminates Abbott's numerous Victorian references and touches on such diverse topics as ancient Babylon, Karl Marx, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Mt. Everest, H.G. Wells, and phrenology. The Annotated Flatland makes fascinating connections between Flatland and Abbott's era, resulting in a classic to rival Abbott's own, and a book that will inspire and delight curious readers for generations to come.
Book Synopsis Flatland (Annotated) by : Edwin Abbott
Download or read book Flatland (Annotated) written by Edwin Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2022-08 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Flatland written by Abbott Edwin Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2021-04-25 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, whereof women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The first half of the story goes through the practicalities of existing in a two-dimensional universe as well as a history leading up to the year 1999 on the eve of the 3rd Millennium.On New Year's Eve, the Square dreams about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland) inhabited by "lustrous points". These points are unable to see the Square as anything other than a set of points on a line. Thus, the Square attempts to convince the realm's monarch of a second dimension, but is unable to do so. In the end, the monarch of Lineland tries to kill A Square rather than tolerate his nonsense any further.
Book Synopsis Flatland (Annotated) by : Edwin Abbott Abbott
Download or read book Flatland (Annotated) written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.
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Download or read book Flatland (Annotated) written by Edwin A. Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2021-03-11 with total page 122 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 in London. The book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, whereof women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The first half of the story goes through the practicalities of existing in a two-dimensional universe as well as a history leading up to the year 1999 on the eve of the 3rd Millennium.
Book Synopsis Flatland (Annotated) by : Edwin Abbott Abbott
Download or read book Flatland (Annotated) written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-04-12 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), it describes the journeys of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status.Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms, Square has adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions) and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions&;a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is not only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space. "Instructive, entertaining, and stimulating to the imagination." &; Mathematics Teacher.
Book Synopsis Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions(Annotated) by : Edwin A. Abbott
Download or read book Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions(Annotated) written by Edwin A. Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2021-05-26 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows--only hard and with luminous edges--and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said "my universe": but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things. In such a country, you will perceive at once that it is impossible that there should be anything of what you call a "solid" kind; but I dare say you will suppose that we could at least distinguish by sight the Triangles, Squares, and other figures, moving about as I have described them. On the contrary, we could see nothing of the kind, not at least so as to distinguish one figure from another. Nothing was visible, nor could be visible, to us, except Straight Lines; and the necessity of this I will speedily demonstrate.
Book Synopsis Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott (Annotated Edition) by : Edwin Abbott Abbott
Download or read book Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott (Annotated Edition) written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EDWIN ABBOTT ABBOTT (20 DECEMBER 1838 - 12 OCTOBER 1926) WAS AN ENGLISH SCHOOLMASTER, THEOLOGIAN, AND ANGLICAN PRIEST, BEST KNOWN AS THE AUTHOR OF THE NOVELLA FLATLAND (1884).EDWIN ABBOTT ABBOTT WAS THE ELDEST SON OF EDWIN ABBOTT (1808-1882), HEADMASTER OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SCHOOL, MARYLEBONE, AND HIS WIFE, JANE ABBOTT (1806-1882). HIS PARENTS WERE FIRST COUSINS.HE WAS EDUCATED AT THE CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL AND AT ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, WHERE HE TOOK THE HIGHEST HONORS OF HIS CLASS IN CLASSICS, MATHEMATICS AND THEOLOGY, AND BECAME A FELLOW OF HIS COLLEGE. IN PARTICULAR, HE WAS 1ST SMITH'S PRIZEMAN IN 1861. IN 1862 HE TOOK ORDERS. AFTER HOLDING MASTERSHIPS AT KING EDWARD'S SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM, HE SUCCEEDED G. F. MORTIMER AS HEADMASTER OF THE CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL IN 1865, AT THE EARLY AGE OF 26. THERE, HE OVERSAW THE EDUCATION OF FUTURE PRIME MINISTER H. H. ASQUITH. ABBOTT WAS HULSEAN LECTURER IN 1876.HE RETIRED IN 1889, AND DEVOTED HIMSELF TO LITERARY AND THEOLOGICAL PURSUITS. ABBOTT'S LIBERAL INCLINATIONS IN THEOLOGY WERE PROMINENT BOTH IN HIS EDUCATIONAL VIEWS AND IN HIS BOOKS. HIS SHAKESPEARIAN GRAMMAR (1870) IS A PERMANENT CONTRIBUTION TO ENGLISH PHILOLOGY. IN 1885, HE PUBLISHED A LIFE OF FRANCIS BACON. HIS THEOLOGICAL WRITINGS INCLUDE THREE ANONYMOUSLY PUBLISHED RELIGIOUS ROMANCES - PHILOCHRISTUS (1878), WHERE HE TRIED TO RAISE INTEREST IN GOSPELS READING, ONESIMUS (1882), AND SILANUS THE CHRISTIAN (1908).ABBOTT ALSO WROTE EDUCATIONAL TEXT BOOKS, ONE BEING "VIA LATINA: FIRST LATIN BOOK" WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN 1898 AND DISTRIBUTED AROUND THE WORLD WITHIN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.ABBOTT'S BEST-KNOWN WORK IS HIS 1884 NOVELLA FLATLAND: A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS WHICH DESCRIBES A TWO-DIMENSIONAL WORLD AND EXPLORES THE NATURE OF DIMENSIONS. IT HAS OFTEN BEEN CATEGORIZED AS SCIENCE FICTION ALTHOUGH IT COULD MORE PRECISELY BE CALLED "MATHEMATICAL FICTION".WITH THE ADVENT OF MODERN SCIENCE FICTION FROM THE 1950S TO THE PRESENT DAY, FLATLAND HAS SEEN A REVIVAL IN POPULARITY, ESPECIALLY AMONG SCIENCE FICTION AND CYBERPUNK FANS. MANY WORKS HAVE BEEN INSPIRED BY THE NOVELLA, INCLUDING NOVEL SEQUELS AND SHORT FILMS.
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Download or read book Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott :(Annotated Edition) written by Edwin Abbott Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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. This mind-expanding satire describes a two-dimensional world organized by strict caste system of geometrical forms. The narrator, A. Square, introduces us to the features of Flatland before recounting 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 Flatland did not achieve popular success on its publication in 1884, it 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 drawings and an short biography
Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2020-07-25 with total page 120 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: IN HIS 1884 SATIRICAL NOVELLA, FLATLAND, ENGLISH SCHOOL TEACHER EDWIN ABBOTT CONTENDS THAT VICTORIAN SOCIETY IS SPLIT INTO WONDERFUL TRAINING AND THAT THE PRIMARY AIM OF EVERYBODY IS TO CLIMB THE SOCIAL LADDER AS FAST AS FEASIBLE. HOWEVER, DESPITE THE FACT THAT SOCIAL ASCENT IS TECHNICALLY OPEN TO EVERY PERSON, SIMPLEST THE ONES ON THE VERY PINNACLE RUNG OF THE LADDER HAVE THE RIGHT TO MENTION WHO IS GOING TO BE SOCIALLY EXTENDED AND WHO ISN'T ALWAYS. ALTHOUGH BRITAIN IS CHECKED OUT AS AN UNFASTENED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ABBOTT INDICATES THAT THIS IS NOT THE CASE, AND THAT LEGAL GUIDELINES ARE CRUELLY MEANT TO HOLD ANYONE IN THEIR REGION AND TO SAVE YOU EXCELLENCE OR GROWTH.FLATLAND IS AN AREA IN WHICH THE ENTIRETY IS TWO-DIMENSIONAL AND OCCUPIED VIA GEOMETRIC FIGURES. MEN ARE POLYGONS AND LADIES TRACES. THE NARRATOR IS A RESPECTED PROFESSIONAL REPRESENTED BY MEANS OF A RECTANGULAR. HE DESCRIBES TO THE READER THE COMPLICATIONS OF LIVING IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL GLOBAL A MILLENNIA INTO THE FUTURE AND PAST.ALTHOUGH THE NOVELLA SEEMS TO BE A GROUNDBREAKING AND ACERBIC SATIRE APPROXIMATELY LIFESTYLES IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN, IT MADE BUT A TINY BLEMISH ON THE LITERARY LANDSCAPE. SCIENTISTS INTERESTED BY THE PROBLEM OF DIMENSIONS OF THE UNIVERSE IN LARGE PART LEFT OUT IT BECAUSE OF ITS CONTENTION THAT IT TURNED INTO A SOCIAL PARODY. SOCIAL COMMENTATORS GAVE IT A NORMALLY EXTENSIVE BERTH DUE TO THE FACT THEY DID NO LONGER UNDERSTAND THE DIMENSIONAL THING TO IT IN ANY RESPECT; BUT, AFTER EINSTEIN'S PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY PRECIPITATED A RESURGENCE OF HOBBY INSIDE THE NOVELLA AND ABBOTT BECOME DECLARED A PROPHET AND A MAN IN ADVANCE OF HIS TIME. STEPHEN HAWKING REFERENCED ABBOTT IN HIS E BOOK A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME.
Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2020-08-30 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a literary hybrid. It is a math- and science-based novella that creates a fictional land while at the same time satirizing Victorian culture and introducing theories of space's multi-dimensional nature. Flatland is a two-dimensional world chronicling the adventures of A. Square (a pseudonym originally given as the author of the book), a mathematician who lives there. Women are straight lines and are considered the lowest of shapes. Men are polygons and the number of sides they have is dependent on their ranking in the social hierarchy. Odd and unexpected incidents bring A. Square together with numerous other geometric shapes. Some of the places he ventures into are Spaceland, which has three dimensions, Lineland, which is one-dimensional, and Pointland, which does not have any dimensions. A. Square also imagines a land with four dimensions, which is considered a subversive concept. The actual author of the 1884 book is Edwin Abbott Abbott, an English schoolteacher.The narrator, A. Square, is a member of the professional caste in society and begins the story leading his life in a two-dimensional world. That women are but simple line-segments and men are polygons with many sides gives the book a symbolic and metaphoric slant right from the start. It is New Year's Eve and Square dreams of visiting Lineland, a one-dimensional world where "lustrous points" live. In the dream, he imagines killing the monarch ruling the realm but is unsuccessful. The monarch in turn tries to kill Square rather than put up with him. After this, Square receives a visitor.A three-dimensional sphere, named appropriately, A. Sphere, appears to Square. Square does not know what to make of this until he sees the three-dimensional Spaceland firsthand. It turns out that Sphere appears in Flatland at the beginning of each millennium and teaches a new follower about the concept of a third dimension hoping to one day educate everyone in Flatland. From Spaceland, they can see the leaders of Flatland as they talk of knowing there is a third dimension and threating anyone who spreads word of its existence. Many witnesses to this announcement are killed or put in prison including B, who is the brother of Square.At this point in the narrative, Square has become open to the idea of additional dimensions. He attempts to persuade Sphere that there could be fourth and fifth dimensions and even beyond. Sphere does not pursue this line of discussion and returns Square to Flatland. Square has another dream. In this one, Sphere appears to him again, this time taking him to Pointland where the point is the only resident and is the universe and the monarch. Any communication that takes place, Point believes, is from his own mind, implying that he lacks the ability to imagine anyone but himself. Sphere tells Square that there is nothing to be done to save Point from his omniscient view of himself.Square comes to realize the ignorance of the Pointland and Lineland monarchs. He acknowledges his own ignorance he had to overcome with respect to the existence of higher dimensions. He is, however, not able to try to convince anyone in Flatland that Spaceland does in fact exist because of the rules that were passed prohibiting any talk of other dimensions. Eventually, he is imprisoned like his brother before him. He sees his brother from time to time, having been placed in the same prison, although in spite of all they have both experienced, he cannot convince even his brother of other dimensions. Square then writes a book, Flatland, as a memoir, hoping it will preserve the ideas he wants to spread, and that it will serve to help future generations see beyond the limits of a two-dimensional world.
