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  title info:
    title: Flatland
    sub title: a romance of many dimensions
  name:
    name part: Abbott, Edwin Abbott
    name part: 1838-1926
    role:
      role term: creator
  name:
    name part: Harper, Lila Marz
    name part: 1955-
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  genre: biography
  genre: novel
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: onc
    date issued: 2010
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: 252 pages : illustrations, portrait ; 22 cm.
  abstract: Flatland (1884) is an influential mathematical fantasy that simultaneously provides an introduction to non-Euclidean geometry and a satire on the Victorian class structure, issues of science and faith, and the role of women. A classic of early science fiction, the novel takes place in a world of two dimensions where all the characters are geometric shapes. The narrator, A Square, is a naïve, respectable citizen who is faced with proof of the existence of three dimensions when he is visited by a sphere and is forced to see the limitations of his world. The introduction to this Broadview Edition provides context for the book's references to Victorian culture and religion, mathematical history, and the history of philosophy. The appendices contain contemporary reviews; extracts from the work of fellow mathematical fantasy writer/mathematician Charles Hinton; Hermann von Helmboltz's "The Axioms of Geometry" (1870); and autobiographical passages from Abbott's The Kernel and the Husk (1886).
  table of contents: Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Edwin Abbott Abbott - A note on teh text -- Flatland : a romance of many dimensions -- Appendix A. Contemporary reviews -- Appendix B. Sources and influences -- Appendix C. Other works by Abbott -- Appendix D. The influence of Flatland -- Appendix E. Mathematical background.
  note: Edwin Abbott ; edited by Lila Marz Harper.
  note: Originally published 1884.
  note: Includes bibliographical references (pages 243-252).
  classification: QA699 A13 2010
  classification: 823/.8
  related item:
    title info:
      title: Broadview editions
  identifier: 9781551116907
  identifier: 1551116901
  record info:
    record content source: NLC
    record creation date: 091008
    record change date: 20151207104218.0
    record identifier: in00002555240
    language of cataloging:
      language term: eng