Very popular amongst mathematics, physics, and computer science students, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "a square," Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer 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...

Dieses Buch ist ein Klassiker der Science-fiction-Literatur. Ein altes Quadrat erzählt uns vom Leben im Flächenland und seinen Ausflügen in das Raumland und das Linienland. Dabei erfahren wir nicht nur Interessantes über andere Dimensionen, sondern auch über Auswirkungen riskanten Denkens in einer Welt, in der das Mögliche mehr Rechte hat als das Wirkliche. Edwin A. Abbott hat diesen Roman 1884 das erste mal veröffentlicht. Er läßt seine Geschichte 115 Jahre später spielen, sie beginnt am vorletzten Tag des Jahres 1999 ......

In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial science-fiction favorite. By imagining the contact of beings from different dimensions, the author fully exploited the power of the analogy between the limitations of humans and those of his two-dimensional characters.

A first-rate fictional guide to the concept of multiple...

"How to Write Clearly" from Edwin Abbott Abbott. English schoolmaster and theologian (1838 - 1926).

"Philochristus" from Edwin Abbott Abbott. English schoolmaster and theologian (1838 - 1926).