Flatland, Edwin Abbott
Flatland, Edwin Abbott
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Flatland

Author: Edwin Abbott

Narrator: Kevin Eldon

Unabridged: 3 hr 42 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Penguin

Published: 08/06/2020


Synopsis

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A work that still poses provocative questions about perception and reality, Flatland is a brilliant parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadth - its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. The amiable narrator, A. Square, provides an overview of this fantastic world - its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his worldview is forever shattered.

Written more than a century ago, Flatland offers an extraordinary animation of dimension, geometry and physical space that continues to resonate in contemporary science.

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Reviews

Goodreads review by Robert on March 02, 2009

When you read this book, keep two things in mind. First, it was written back in 1880, when relativity had not yet been invented, when quantum theory was not yet discovered, when only a handful of mathematicians had the courage (yet) to challenge Euclid and imagine curved space geometries and geometr......more

Goodreads review by Taufiq on November 22, 2024

This mathematical sci-fi novel, Flatland, written over 100 years ago, is more than just science fiction; its "dimension" transcends mathematical space, and it is also a satirical novel of the Victorian era. Written from the perspective of a "Square" in a 2-dimensional Flatland, the book tells about t......more

Goodreads review by Michael on March 23, 2017

A curious little novella about a man a two-dimensional world thinking literally out of the box. First he explains his world in which the angles you have the higher social status you have in Flatland - Circles being the highest rank. He meets someone from Lineland (one-dimensional) who is incapable o......more


Quotes

At once a classic of science fiction, a playful brainteaser about geometry, a pointed satire of Victorian manners - and, finally, a strangely compelling argument about reason, faith, and the greatest mysteries of the universe The Wall Street Journal