Flatland

Unless youre a mathematician the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life these are the ones. Taken together they form a couple of accessible and charming explanations of geometry and physics for the curious non-mathematician. Flatland 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 worlds assumptions about reality and comes to understand the confusing problem of higher dimensions