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Title: The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott, Ian Stewart ISBN: 0-7382-0541-9 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 04 December, 2001 Format: Hardcover Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $30.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.2 (5 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A book for all philosophy fans
Comment: I understand this book was written by a mathematician and possesses a juvenalian look at Victorian satire- but this book is so much more!! It is philosophy embedded in delicious metaphor and social commentary threaded in the tapestry of extended metaphor. And who said math was boring? This book is a must for every intellectual!!
Rating: 5
Summary: Intellectual Fun with Commentary
Comment: Flatland is a novel originally published in 1884 by Edwin A. Abbott. It is told from the point of view of A. Square, that four-sided resident of the titular country. The first part of the book consists of a description of what it is like to live in a two-dimensional world. The second part concerns A. Square's encounter with a sphere and his subsequent "visions" of pointland, lineland and spaceland.
The purpose of this novel is two-fold: to introduce the casual reader into the concepts of multi-dimensional spaces (i.e. what will become the concept of four dimensional space-time) and to provide social commentary on Victorian society. I cannot comment much on what he achieves in terms of opening the eyes of the Victorian reader to the ills of that society; however, I find his ability to illuminate the concepts of dimensionality extra-ordinary. As a math and physics teacher, I am always looking for ways to open my students' minds to visualizing what they are doing. Even after well over 100 years, few people have approached Abbott's clarity in helping people visualize the difference between different dimensions. One of the best examples: a square only "looks" like a square to someone who can see in three dimensions. A square itself, trapped in a plane, would see another square (or, indeed, any figure) only as a line. This leads to intriguing thoughts on what creatures who live in higher dimensions than our own see as they look at us.
Of course, the story of Flatland alone is wonderful but Stewart's annotation and commentary take the book to another level. On nearly every page, Stewart offers insight and background into the text. Unable to resist the pun: he added another dimension to the book. Having read Flatland many years ago and enjoyed it, I felt I understood the book much better this time around with Stewart's help. Anyone with an interest in math and physics should not pass up the opportunity to read this edition of Flatland.
Rating: 5
Summary: An Excellent Classic
Comment: Contrary to this silly form I am actully 14. I am an eighth grader and I read this for my Algebra 1 class. I fell in love with it instanly. The themes, ideas, and satires all intertwined create one of the best books ever written. The paralle of the unique twist between Euclidian and Non-Euclidian and the satire of Victorian England are wonderful. This book makes you both laugh-out-loud and cry, but most of all it makes you think. Edwin Abbot Abbot was not only a mathamatican but also a brillent liggest. His pros style makes the book all the better... BUY THIS BRILLENT BOOK
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Title: Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So by Ian Stewart ISBN: 073820675X Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: 16 April, 2002 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Flatland : A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott ISBN: 048627263X Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 21 September, 1992 List Price(USD): $1.50 |
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Title: Geometry, Relativity and the Fourth Dimension by Rudolf Rucker ISBN: 0486234002 Publisher: Dover Pubns Pub. Date: 01 June, 1977 List Price(USD): $7.95 |
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Title: Spaceland: A Novel of the Fourth Dimension by Rudy Rucker ISBN: 0765303671 Publisher: Tor Books Pub. Date: July, 2003 List Price(USD): $13.95 |
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Title: Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics by Robert Gilmore ISBN: 0387914951 Publisher: Copernicus Books Pub. Date: August, 1995 List Price(USD): $24.00 |
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