Banesh Hoffmann
Birth date: September 06, 1906
Died: August 05, 1986
Banesh Hoffmann's Books
Eu nao gostei muito do livro porque apenas após 63% é que a história realmente começa. Eh obvio que aprender as diversas caracteristicas de Planolandia é muito interessante, mas se torna enfadonho pois o autor se extendeu demais nesse quesito. Ele poderia ter sido mais rapido nessa parte. O livro eh...
Maybe you will all know the substantial plot of this novel, but I'll say it for eventual isolated cases. Flatland is an alternative world in two dimensions, populated by flat geometric figures. The main character tell us of the features of this world and "people": the gerarchic society, some habits ...
Victorian social satire meets fourth-dimensional geometry! Told from the perspective of a rather ordinary Square living in a strictly regimented two-dimensional world, Flatland offers myriad existential and mathematical challenges for even the sharpest mind. When a visiting Sphere from the third dim...
Cute satire. Narrator, square, attorney, describes his 2D setting, visits 0D, 1D, & 3D settings, and dreams of 4D, 5D, &c. We find that the 2D world has a "remote and backward agricultural district [wherein] an antiquarian may still discover a square house," which is perfectly suggestive that, ev...
Before anything, this is one of those reads that I'm sure I wasn't able to get from the first viewing. In the future, I will go back to it and probably find out more things than I did until now. It's such a pleasure to know there's more to discover in so few pages, more to see about the writing, the...
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