Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions

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4.4
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100
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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. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions; in a foreword to one of the many publications of the novella, noted science writer Isaac Asimov described Flatland as "The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions." As such, the novella is still popular amongst mathematics, physics and computer science students.

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4.4
322 reviews
Kimberly Jolly
May 6, 2019
I was forced to read this book for a geometry class. this book was hard to follow and understand. i would not recomend reading this for fun, but it help me with understanding objects positioned in "space". if you are taking a geometry class, thus might help with spacial recignition as well. if you are looking foor your next good read, find a differnt book other than this.
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Giovani Ramirez
July 26, 2013
One of the first books that I've read that uses the concepts of other dimensions. I think it's vocabulary may be the only thing in this book that limits most readers from understanding it.
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Ethan Linquist
July 6, 2016
In the book they said there's only two dimensions, but if that were true, nothing would be visible, because it must have an x and a y axis right? But that means to see it you would have to be on the z axis, otherwise it would motha have a height or a width depending on which axis you take out and thus would be completely invisible
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