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	• Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Dover Thrift Editions) Edwin A. Abbott Dover Publications, 1992 - 96 pages average customer review:based on 157 reviews view larger image
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A glimpse into 4D

This is an absolutely fascinating book. It's also a classic, written in 1880, that has definitely stood the test of time. I am mildly interested in math and fascinated by science, and the concept of multiple dimensions (or fewer dimensions) is one of great interest to me. The notion of Pointland, Lineland, Flatland, and above and beyond into 4-D, 5-D, 6-D, and more is, to allow my geek side to show, exciting. The book also has some interesting social statements to make. I can't recommend this book enough to anyone at least mildly interested in math or science.

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A Great Read-Even If Your Not Into Math

It's hard to believe that this book was published in 1880. Abbot, the author, was in my eyes, a genius. I read this book and was amazed by several things:
1-All the amazing concepts in this book were incredibly easy to understand-even for a high school student. The diagrams included also help a lot. I did not know or understand much about dimensional theory before reading this book, but after, I'm amazed at how much I learned from an amusing book written in the late 1800's.
2-This book should not be taken just for its mathematical simpleness and genius, but also for it's amusing writing. The story was funny, often satirical of the Victorian world which Abbot lived in. This is one of the reasons the book was so easy and quick to read-it is interesting in a literary as well as a mathematical sense.
3-The book contains no complex math equations involving numbers what-so-ever. It only explains theory in an easy to understand way that does not limit the concept that the author is teaching.

These and other details make Flatland one of the best books I have ever read. If you liked Flatland after reading it, also read Sphereland. I have written a review for it, also (you may see it by pressing the link).

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Aamzing book - high school freshmen literature student

I started reading this book thinking it would not work well for analysis in a literature class but I was suprised. While explaining geometric concepts, it has all the elements of any other story. The book was easy and fast to read and comprehend. After finishing this book as an assignment, I quickly bought Flatterland for independant reading. I haven't found the time to start Flatterland but by the blurb on the jacket and other reviews, I am looking forward to it. I recommend this book to any high school student or slightly younger students interested in math or science. Of course, I recommend this to adults as well.

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A sci-fi classic about life in two dimensions

Flatland is a two-dimensional unvierse, inhabited not by people as we know them, but by shapes - triangles, polygons, circles, etc. The narrator, A. Square, introduces the readers to the customs, class distinctions (based on geometric shape), male and female roles, how to tell one another apart, and on general life living in a world of only two dimensions. Square's life is turned upside down when, on the eve of the new millenium, a strange visitor literally drops into his home. This visitor - a Sphere - has chosen Square as his apostle to teach the two-dimensional masses about how more to life there is beyond their flat world view.

At first glance, this comes across as a novel about higher math: geometry, 2- and 3-dimensions, the possiblity of higher cimensions after the third, etc. Author Edwin Abbott examines and illustrates what life would be like living in such flat world, in which everyone resembles a straight line - whether the "person" is a circle, a triangle, or a square - because only one side of them can be seen. On a deeper level, though, Abbott offers a scathing parody of Victorian society. (After all, the book was first published in the late 1880s.) Class distinction based on birth is rampant. The "lower" beings, such as isocoles triangles and irregular shapes, live in shame and are looked down upon by society. They will never attain the good paying jobs or respectability that those shapes with more sides have. Women are seen as merely lines, very dangerous to society, though, so they must be kept uneducated. Their main purpose is to help their male counterparts achieve higher and higher status through breeding.

Quite a remarkable book for its time.

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Ok, so we glimpse the 4thD, is this the Spirit World?

I read this book over 20 years ago for extra credit in 10th grade geometry. It has the effect of compressing your mind like a spring, (into 2D) then releasing it. What I got was a different meaning than most. And that is...this could explain "where" Heaven and Hell are. If our 3D existance is a subset of 4D or higher as the book suggests, then it "fits" for an answer to a rather basic question of faith in God.

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