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“Flatland” has fascinated generations of readers. It is a deft mixture of social satire and science fiction that continues to pose provocative questions about perception and reality. “Flatland” is a brilliant parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadth – its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. The amiable narrator, A Square, provides an overview of this fantastic world – its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his world view is forever shattered.Flatland is one of the very few novels about math and philosophy that can appeal to almost any layperson. Published in 1880, this short fantasy takes us to a completely flat world of two physical dimensions where all the inhabitants are geometric shapes, and who think the planar world of length and width that they know is all there is. But one inhabitant discovers the existence of a third physical dimension, enabling him to finally grasp the concept of a fourth dimension. Watching our Flatland narrator, we begin to get an idea of the limitations of our own assumptions about reality, and we start to learn how to think about the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England.
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The science of Logic, presented as a game.
- Based on the Project Gutenberg text.
- New illustrations of logic diagrams.
- Color illustrations also readable in black-and-white.
Most electronic transcriptions of this book are unreadable because the ASCII illustrations have become collapsed and jumbled. To remedy this, more than 80 unique illustrations have been created and the format has been corrected for flowable text.
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