A brilliant exploration of higher dimensions while satirizing the social hierarchy of the Victorian caste system. But don't let size fool you: to grasp every element of the book will take a close reading. In this world of 'plane geometry' with 'Euclidian Geometric' shapes, each dimension can only perceive the one below it - so if one has evidence of a third, what about a fourth? Flatland has so many dimensions to it - mathematical, philosophical, social, religious - that it's hard to believe it's only 82 pages. Men are depicted as polygonal, while women are straight lines (now hang on a minute!)….Flatland illustrates marvelously the difficulty a person or group might have seeing a greater reality, or different reality, than its own. However, delving into conversations about theoretical Geometry can be a difficult thing to start with young people. Geometry class can get a little boring if you focus on just theorems and proofs. These shapes think that the 'planar' world of length and width are all that exist, until one shape discovers the existence of a third physical dimension, which ultimately is expanded to the concept of a fourth.Īs a given shape, one's class and intelligence is determined by one's number of sides. Flatland is a journey through space (literally) that you can take with your young ones or students to teach them about Geometric concepts. He is moved by the beauty of a new perspective and willing to endure humiliation and. By the end, A Square provides the best example of a modest and aspiring character. FlatlandBooks.Com - Conspiracy - UFOs - Mind Control - Secret Societies - Books - Videos - Magazines Flatland Books has ceased operation. Its author, writing anonymously as 'A Square' takes us on a fantastical trip to a completely flat, two-dimensional world whose inhabitants are geometric shapes. Flatland argues that immodest conviction in ones own superiority culturally, physically, or mentally limits ones ability to perceive and pursue what is actually true. Edwin Abbott Abbott's satirical 1884 novella Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, is 'on the surface' an examination of multiple dimensions.

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