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The Annotated Flatland

Author : Ian Stewart
Publisher : Basic Books
ISBN 13 : 0786721839
Total Pages : 274 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (867 download)

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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.

Flatterland

Author : Ian Stewart
Publisher : ReadHowYouWant.com
ISBN 13 : 1458716546
Total Pages : 466 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (587 download)

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Download or read book Flatterland written by Ian Stewart and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: First there was Edwin A. Abbott's remarkable Flatland, published in 1884, and one of the all-time classics of popular mathematics. Now, from mathematician and accomplished science writer Ian Stewart, comes what Nature calls "a superb sequel." Through larger-than-life characters and an inspired story line, Flatterland explores our present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time, and matter, as well as modern geometries and their applications. The journey begins when our heroine, Victoria Line, comes upon her great-great-grandfather A. Square's diary, hidden in the attic. The writings help her to contact the Space Hopper, who tempts her away from her home and family in Flatland and becomes her guide and mentor through ten dimensions. In the tradition of Alice in Wonderland and The Phantom Toll Booth, this magnificent investigation into the nature of reality is destined to become a modern classic.

Flatland

Author : Edwin A. Abbott
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521769884
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (217 download)

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Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin A. Abbott and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2010 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A fully annotated edition of Abbott's classic Flatland, with notes and commentary putting it in its historical and mathematical context.

Flatland

Author : Edwin A. Abbott
Publisher : DigiCat
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 104 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (596 download)

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Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin A. Abbott and published by DigiCat. This book was released on 2022-11-13 with total page 104 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novel. 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. 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 named 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. Flatland 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.

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated)

Author : Edwin Abbott Abbott
Publisher : Youcanprint
ISBN 13 : 8827841512
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (278 download)

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Download or read book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Illustrated version of "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" by Edwin Abbott Abbott. 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.

Flatland (Annotated)

Author : Edwin Abbott Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (852 download)

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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.

Flatland

Author : Edwin A. Abbott
Publisher : Wipf and Stock Publishers
ISBN 13 : 1556354444
Total Pages : 127 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (563 download)

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Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin A. Abbott and published by Wipf and Stock Publishers. This book was released on 2007-05-28 with total page 127 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this work about a land of two dimensions we have at once social satire, as pointed today as when it was written, and insights into theoretical science. The author, posing as a square inhabitant of Flatland, first describes his country. Then he tells of his visions of Lineland and Pointland, his trip to Spaceland, and his fate when he preaches the Third dimension in Flatland.

Flatland (Annotated)

Author : Edwin A. Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 122 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (198 download)

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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.

Flatland

Author : Edwin Abbott Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (426 download)

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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.

Flatland

Author : Edwin Abbott Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 116 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. As a satire, Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions; in a foreword to one of the many publications of the novella, noted science writer Isaac Asimov described Flatland as "The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions." As such, the novella is still popular amongst mathematics, physics and computer science students.

Naming Infinity

Author : Loren Graham
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674032934
Total Pages : 252 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (74 download)

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Download or read book Naming Infinity written by Loren Graham and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2009-03-31 with total page 252 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1913, Russian imperial marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece, to haul off monks engaged in a dangerously heretical practice known as Name Worshipping. Exiled to remote Russian outposts, the monks and their mystical movement went underground. Ultimately, they came across Russian intellectuals who embraced Name Worshipping—and who would achieve one of the biggest mathematical breakthroughs of the twentieth century, going beyond recent French achievements. Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor take us on an exciting mathematical mystery tour as they unravel a bizarre tale of political struggles, psychological crises, sexual complexities, and ethical dilemmas. At the core of this book is the contest between French and Russian mathematicians who sought new answers to one of the oldest puzzles in math: the nature of infinity. The French school chased rationalist solutions. The Russian mathematicians, notably Dmitri Egorov and Nikolai Luzin—who founded the famous Moscow School of Mathematics—were inspired by mystical insights attained during Name Worshipping. Their religious practice appears to have opened to them visions into the infinite—and led to the founding of descriptive set theory. The men and women of the leading French and Russian mathematical schools are central characters in this absorbing tale that could not be told until now. Naming Infinity is a poignant human interest story that raises provocative questions about science and religion, intuition and creativity.

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

Author : Edwin Abbott Abbott
Publisher : Prabhat Prakashan
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 99 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 99 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. It was first published in 1884. 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.

Flatland

Author : Edwin Abbott Abbott
Publisher : Cosimo, Inc.
ISBN 13 : 1616402342
Total Pages : 110 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (164 download)

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Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by Cosimo, Inc.. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What if there existed a world consisting of only two spatial dimensions? This mind-bending supposition is the jumping-off point for one of 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.

Spaceland

Author : Rudy Rucker
Publisher : Macmillan + ORM
ISBN 13 : 1429980079
Total Pages : 313 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (299 download)

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Download or read book Spaceland written by Rudy Rucker and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2003-07-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always dreamed of. On New Year's Eve, hoping to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. It brings no new warmth to their cooling relationship, but it does attract someone else's attention. When Joe sees a set of lips talking to him (floating in midair) and feels the poke of a disembodied finger (inside him), it's not because of the champagne he's drunk. He has just met Momo, a woman from the All, a world of four spatial dimensions for whom our narrow world, which she calls Spaceland, is something like a rug, but one filled with motion and life. Momo has a business proposition for Joe, an offer she won't let him refuse. The upside potential becomes much clearer to him once she helps him grow a new eye (on a stalk) that can see in the fourth-dimensional directions, and he agrees. After that it's a wild ride through a million-dollar night in Las Vegas, a budding addiction to tasty purple 4-D food, a failing marriage, eye-popping excursions into the All, and encounters with Momo's foes, rubbery red critters who steal money, offer sage advice and sometimes messily explode. Joe is having the time of his life, until Momo's scheme turns out to have angles he couldn't have imagined. Suddenly the fate of all life here in Spaceland is at stake. Rudy Rucker is a past master at turning mathematical concepts into rollicking science fiction adventure, from Spacetime Donuts and White Light to The Hacker and the Ants. In the tradition of Edwin A. Abbott's classic novel, Flatland, Rucker gives us a tour of higher mathematics and visionary realities. Spaceland is Flatland on hyperdrive! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.

Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions Annotated

Author : Edwin Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781676711872
Total Pages : 134 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (118 download)

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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).

Flatland (Annotated)

Author : Edwin Abbott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781954642249
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (422 download)

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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:

Flatland

Author : Edwin Abbott Abbott
Publisher : Independently Published
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 106 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (629 download)

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Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-08-23 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.