Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Oxford World's Classics)
 

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Oxford World's Classics)

by Edwin A. Abbott

Unless you're a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life, these are the ones. Taken together, they form a couple of accessible and charming explanations of geometry and physics for the curious non-mathematician. Flatland, which is also available under separate cover, was published in 1880 and imagines a ... (read more)

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mundivagant
  • Rated 5 stars

divest yourself of prejudice and become
a believer in the sex appeal of squares

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Christina H
  • Rated 2 stars

I hope I will never have to read this book again. I was forced to for a Geometry project but hopefully never again.

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  • Caroline

    caroline said:

    Definitely a great book to make you think. It helped me get an idea of how there could be a fourth dimension without actually being able to see it.

    posted Saturday, November 10 2007
  • something witty

    something witty said:

    One interpretation of this work is as a critique of the economic and sexual barriers that are woven so tightly into the fabric of society that we are nearly incapable of breaking them, no matter how blatantly the truth is shoved in our faces. You have to look a little for it, but this is no simple science-fiction book.

    posted Tuesday, June 12 2007
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