Edwin Abbott was a mathematician who used the idea of 'Flatland' - a world of just two dimensions - to poke fun at caste-ridden Victorian Society. The book also allowed him to explore the nature of dimensions and our own perceptual limitations. In the book a three-dimensional being can view the work[...]

How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? In Flatland, A Square's linear world is invaded by a Sphere bringing the gospel of the third dimension. Part geometry lesson, part social satire, the novel enlarges readers' imaginations beyond the limits of [...]

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novel by the English schoolmaster Edwin A. 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'[...]

Over a hundred years ago, 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, be[...]

Den moderna klassikern tankeexperimentromanen Flatland av Edwin A Abbott tar oss med på en resa till det alldeles platta landet, världen med bara två dimensioner. Varelserna i Flatland är geometriska figurer - streck, trianglar, kvadrater osv, som rör sig på landets yta. Eftersom allting är a[...]