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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions |
| Author: |
Abbott, E. |
| ISBN: |
048627263X |
| Publisher: |
Dover Publications |
| URL: |
http://www.amazon.com/Flatland-Romance-Dimensions-Thrift-Editions/dp/048627263X |
| Year: |
1992 |
| Description: |
This book was originally published in 1880 and imagines a two-dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes who think their planar world is all there is. But one Flatlander, a Square, discovers the existence of a third dimension and the limits of his world's assumptions about reality and comes to understand the confusing problem of higher dimensions. This book contains accessible and explanations of geometry and physics for the curious non-mathematicians. |
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| Comments: |
Contributed by: DITD Team Member on 1/31/2005
"Flatland has been discovered with delight by each generation since it was issued, and has remained in print since then. Introductions have pointed out the applicability to modern art, 20th-century physics, computer graphics and modeling, and exploratory data analysis." |
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