An Edition with Notes and Commentary Edwin A. Abbott, William F. Lindgren, Thomas F. Banchoff ... one of the most beautiful books of the century, an edition Of Euclid's Elements produced by the amateur mathematician Oliver Byrne.
... blessure sérieuse à un voyageur étourdi ou peut-être distrait qui se jetterait brusquement contre eux; et par conséquent, dès le XIe siècle de notre ère, les maisons triangulaires ont été universellement interdites par la Loi, les.
This book is the companion to the movie--and the ultimate edition of the classic book on which it is based.
A humorous examination with serious overtones of the concepts of space, time, and dimension.
Written pseudonymously by "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.
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The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), it describes the journeys of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the ...
In his introduction, Thomas Banchoff points out that there is no better way to begin exploring the problem of understanding higher-dimensional slicing phenomena than reading this classic novel of the Victorian era.
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Written pseudonymously by "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.
As such, the work is still popular amongst mathematics, physics and computer science students.
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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 first half of the story goes through the practicalities of existing in a two-dimensional universe as well as a history leading up to the year 1999 on the eve of the 3rd Millennium.
Written pseudonymously by "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.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 science fiction novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott.As a satire, Flatland offered pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture.
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 ...
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.
This fully annotated edition enables the modern-day reader to understand and appreciate the many "dimensions" of this classic satire.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a classic satirical novella written by Edwin A. Abbott and published in 1884. The book uses a two-dimensional world to comment on Victorian culture and it has been the inspiration of many movies.