Flatland is a mathematical essay, meant to explain a point: that higher dimensions (more than length, depth and width) may be present in our universe, but if they are, it will be nearly impossible for us to understand them.The story itself consists of a two dimensional world (Flatland), in which there are people of assorted shapes. These shapes live regular lives, just as we do. The protagonist (a square), is visited by a sphere, which tries to explain to him the existence of a thi...

An evergreen science fiction classic, Edwin A. Abbott’s Flatland presents an alternate vision of society rendered completely in two dimensions.In the titular Flatland, women are line segments and men are polygons with various side lengths and angles. Even in such a simple world, social hierarchies and inequality persist. Social status is determined by a man’s regularity of shape and their number of sides. Women, as line segments, are considered dangerous b...

Step into a world where geometry becomes destiny and ideas reshape reality in The Collected Works of Edwin Abbott Abbott—an illustrated anthology of public domain classics from one of the Victorian era’s most inventive minds. Best known for Flatland, Abbott blends speculative fiction, social satire, and philosophical allegory into stories that are as entertaining as they are mind-expanding.At the heart of the collection is Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimension...

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The beloved science fiction classicIn Flatland, the more sides a man has, the more powerful he is. Triangles are laborers and soldiers. Squares and pentagons are middle-class doctors and lawyers. Hexagons are nobility. Women, however, are straight lines, incapable of advancement in a two-dimensional world. Everything in Flatland is clear-cut and orderly, until the day an average citizen—a Square—dreams of a land of three dimensions. If three dimensions are possible,...

The Complete Works of Edwin Abbott AbbottThis Complete Collection includes the following titles:--------1 - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions2 - How to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English Composition3 - Flatland4 - Philochristus: Memoirs of a Disciple of the Lord5 - Onesimus6 - The Kernel and the Husk: Letters on Spiritual Christianity7 - Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

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 ...

Written in 1884 by English schoolteacher Edwin Abbott Abbott, "Flatland" (full name "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions") is a literary hybrid, 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 world that exists on the two-dimensional plane, where its inhabitants—literal geometrical shapes—live in a highly-structured society organ...

The Complete Works of Edwin AbbottEdwin Abbott Abbott FBA was an English schoolmaster and theologian, best known as the author of the novella Flatland.This collection includes the following:Flatland: A Romance of Many DimensionsFLATLANDHow to Write Clearly: Rules and Exercises on English CompositionPhilochristus: Memoirs of a Disciple of the LordOnesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of St. PaulSilanus the Christian

The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, Flatland is set in a two-dimensional world where life exists only in lines and shapes - until one of its inhabitants, 'A. Square', has his perspective transformed forever. This brilliantly eccentric classic is an invitation to see beyond our own reality.'At once a playful brainteaser about geometry, a pointed satire of Victorian manners - and a strangely compelling argument about the greatest mysteries of...

If my poor Flatland friend retained the vigour of mind which he enjoyed when he began to compose these Memoirs, I should not now need to represent him in this preface, in which he desires, firstly, to return his thanks to his readers and critics in Spaceland, whose appreciation has, with unexpected celerity, required a second edition of his work; secondly, to apologize for certain errors and misprints (for which, however, he is not entirely responsible); and, thirdly, to explain one or two mi...

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 categorised 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 novel...