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Flatland By Edwin A. Abbott
Flatland By Edwin A. Abbott
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Published: 06/08/2020
Genres: Fiction - Science Fiction - Classics - Mathematics - Fantasy - Philosophy - Literature
A pioneering work of speculative fiction, Abbott’s cult classic imagines a two-dimensional world of universal flatness and a mysterious geometric stranger who threatens to unlock a tantalising new order.
The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, Flatland is set in a two-dimensional world where life exists only in lines and shapes - until one of its inhabitants, 'A. Square', has his perspective transformed forever. This brilliantly eccentric classic is an invitation to see beyond our own reality.
'At once a playful brainteaser about geometry, a pointed satire of Victorian manners - and a strangely compelling argument about the greatest mysteries of the Universe' Wall Street Journal
'Flatland could lead to very profound thought about our Universe and ourselves' Isaac Asimov
Publisher information
Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
ISBN: 9780241441572
Number of pages: 160
Dimensions: 180 x 111 x 11 mm
Weight: 104 g
Language: English
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