FLATLAND - A Romance of Many Dimensions (The Distinguished Chiron Edition)

This special edition is a distinguished vintage reproduction of the 1884 satirical novella <em>Flatland</em> by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott. Meticulously elaborated by the editorial team of <em>Chiron Academic Press</em> in collaboration with the renowned literature publisher <em>Edition l'Aleph (www.l-aleph.com)</em> this special edition pays particular attention to the very authentic details of the editorial of text and images fine type setting <em>mise-en-page</em> production and print. The result is a revival of the vintage for the 21st century's reader. Thus a unique reading experience for the book lovers and collectors of this genre. A recommended edition to libraries.<br/><br/>Writing pseudonymously as A Square the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures whereof women are simple line-segments while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a square a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The Square dreams about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland) inhabited by lustrous points and attempts to convince the realm's monarch of a second dimension; but is unable to do so. . . <br/><br/>One of the most imaginative delightful and yes touching works of mathematics this slender 1884 book purports to be the memoir of A. Square a citizen of an entirely two-dimensional world. -The Washington Post Book World<br/><br/>Flatland has remained of interest for over a century precisely because of its ability to engage its readers on so many different planes in so many different dimensions.-Victorian StudiesThis reprint of Abbott's Flatland adventures contains an Intro¬duction 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.-Zentralblatt MATH<br/><br/>In 1884 Edwin Abbott wrote a strange and enchanting novella called Flatland in which a square who lives in a two-dimensional world comes to comprehend the existence of a third dimension but is unable to persuade his compatriots of his discovery. Through the book Abbott skewered hierarchical Victorian values while simul¬taneously giving a glimpse of the mathematics of higher dimensions.-Science News