| Titre : |
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions |
| Type de document : |
Ouvrage |
| Auteurs : |
Edwin A. Abbott, Auteur |
| Editeur : |
New York (New york) : Dover Publications |
| Année de publication : |
2018 |
| Importance : |
83 p |
| ISBN/ISSN/EAN : |
978-0-486-27263-4 |
| Langues : |
Anglais (eng) |
| Catégories : |
[Thesagri] géométrie dans l'espace
[Thesagri] mathématique
[Thesagri] roman
|
| Index. décimale : |
BE-6 Littérature |
| Note de contenu : |
This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. 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 lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status.
Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms, Square has adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions) and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions—a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is not only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space. |
Flatland: a romance of many dimensions [Ouvrage] / Edwin A. Abbott, Auteur . - New York (New york) : Dover Publications, 2018 . - 83 p. ISBN : 978-0-486-27263-4 Langues : Anglais ( eng)
| Catégories : |
[Thesagri] géométrie dans l'espace
[Thesagri] mathématique
[Thesagri] roman
|
| Index. décimale : |
BE-6 Littérature |
| Note de contenu : |
This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. 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 lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status.
Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms, Square has adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions) and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions—a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is not only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space. |
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