Edwin abbott abbott flatland5/11/2023 ![]() ![]() One day, the Square meets an alien: a being claiming to be a three-dimensional sphere from Spaceland! While most Flatlanders would flatly reject such an outrageous idea, Mr Square In this well-ordered world lives the narrator, A Square, a professional gentleman and proud father of four pentagonal sons (for male children have a good chance of being born with one more side than their fathers). ![]() No-one in Flatland has any notion of a third dimension everything is "Infinitely-sided" circles form the highest cast consisting of priests, and straight lines the lowest, consisting of - who else? - women. In Flatland, the more sides you've got, the higher up the social scale you are. It still is one of the best introductions to a mathematical world of higher dimensions, and it's an amazingly imaginative social satire, too.įlatland is set in a flat land: the two-dimensional plane inhabited by straight lines, polygons and circles. Abbott wrote this beautiful tale over a hundred years ago under the pseudonym A Square. ![]() Flatland: a romance of many dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott ![]()
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