Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott 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....
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott 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.
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Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780486200019 (0486200019)
Publish date: March 6th 1954
Publisher: Dover Publications
Pages no: 103
Edition language: English
Category:
Science Fiction Fantasy,
Classics,
Novels,
Science Fiction,
Literature,
European Literature,
British Literature,
Science,
Physics,
Philosophy,
19th Century,
Mathematics
Un colto quadrato ci racconta che nel bidimensionale universo mondo della Flatlandia le donne sono linee rette, i soldati e gli operai delle classi inferiori triangoli con base variabile; quando la loro base misura meno di un terzo di centimetro, i loro vertici sono così acuminati che è difficile di...
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