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 AbbottWith an introduction by Thomas Banchoff 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.

Dettagli sul prodotto

• Autori: Edwin Abbott, Edwin A. Abbott, Edwin Abbott Abbott, Thomas Banchoff
• Con la collaborazione di: Thomas Banchoff (Introduzione), Banchoff Thomas (Introduzione)
• Editore: Princeton University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 30.04.2015
• EAN: 9780691165554
• ISBN: 978-0-691-16555-4
• Pagine: 104
• Dimensioni: 139 mm x 214 mm x 4 mm
• Serie: Princeton Science Library; Princeton Science Library (Pap; Princeton Science Library; Princeton Science Library (Pap
• Categorie: Scienze naturali, medicina, informatica, tecnica > Scienze naturali, tematiche generali; 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