Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions

Zusatztext "This reprint of Abbott's Flatland adventures contains an Introduction by Thomas Banchoff which is worth reading on its own. So if you don't have yet this book at home, go ahead and buy this edition." Informationen zum Autor Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926), the author of more than fifty books on classics, theology, history, and Shakespeare, was headmaster of the City of London School and one of the leading educators of his time. Thomas Banchoff is professor emeritus of mathematics at Brown University and author of Beyond the Third Dimension . Klappentext In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott published 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, becoming a perennial science-fiction favorite. By imagining the contact of beings from different dimensions, the author fully exploited the power of the analogy between the limitations of humans and those of his two-dimensional characters. Zusammenfassung Reprint. Originally published: 6th ed. New York: Dover Publications, 1953.

Product details

• Authors: Edwin Abbott, Edwin A. Abbott, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Thomas Banchoff
• Assisted by: Thomas Banchoff (Introduction), Banchoff Thomas (Introduction)
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9780691165554
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16555-4
• No. of pages: 104
• Dimensions: 139 mm x 214 mm x 4 mm
• Series: Princeton Science Library; Princeton Science Library (Pap; Princeton Science Library; Princeton Science Library (Pap
• Subjects: Natural sciences, medicine, IT, technology > Natural sciences (general); Non-fiction book > Nature, technology > Natural science; Science Fiction, FICTION / Classics, Classic fiction (pre c 1945), FICTION / Science Fiction / General, MATHEMATICS / Recreations & Games, Popular and recreational mathematics, Classic fiction: general and literary