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Books: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions) [UNABRIDGED] by Edwin A. Abbott Click Image For More Info Click HERE for ... Prices (new/used) Availability Additional Images Similar Links More Reviews Additional Information Paperback: 83 pages ; Dimensions (in inches): 0.22 x 8.18 x 5.26 Publisher: Dover Pubns; Unabridged edition (October 1992) In-Print Editions: Audio Cassette (Abridged), Audio CD (Unabridged), Audio Download (Audible.com) |All Editions Customers who bought this book also bought: The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott, Ian Stewart (Introduction) (Hardcover) Alice in Quantumland: An Allegory of Quantum Physics by Robert Gilmore (Hardcover) Euclid's Window by Leonard Mlodinow (Author) (Hardcover) Planiverse Computer Contact With a Two-Dimensional World by A. K. Dewdney (Paperback) One Two Three...Infinity: Facts and Speculations of Science by George Gamow (Paperback) Review Amazon.com Flatland is one of the very few novels about math and philosophy that can appeal to almost any layperson. Published in 1880, this short fantasy takes us to a completely flat world of two physical dimensions where all the inhabitants are geometric shapes, and who think the planar world of length and width that they know is all there is. But one inhabitant discovers the existence of a third physical dimension, enabling him to finally grasp the concept of a fourth dimension. Watching our Flatland narrator, we begin to get an idea of the limitations of our own assumptions about reality, and we start to learn how to think about the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. More Reviews