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| Author: Edwin A. Abbott
Publisher: Dover Publications
Category: Book
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Sales Rank: 4005
Media: Paperback
Edition: Unabridged
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Pages: 96
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Dimensions (in): 8 x 5.1 x 0.4
ISBN: 048627263X
Dewey Decimal Number: 530.11
EAN: 9780486272634
ASIN: 048627263X
Publication Date: September 21, 1992
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 Have always loved this book... January 30, 2008
1 out of 1 found this review helpful
This has always been a favorite of mine, so I wanted to christen my kindle with it. I imagine most people who will buy it for the kindle have probably already read it. If you like a mixture of Gulliver's Travels, Geometry and social commentary, it is worth the small amount of money. Of course you can get it for free since it was written in the late 1800's, but the Gutenberg version doesn't have good diagrams - they are all ASCII. I couldn't find diagrams in the versions available on AMAZON except the Oxford World's Classics edition, so that is the one I recommend. The diagrams are important for the geometry aspect and are excellent in this version.
 Flatland visited December 14, 2007
Flatland: A Romance Of Many DimensionsThis is not the version I bougt, because that one was nott in the list. This is the same title and author and about the same price, so it is about the same book. It's an entertaining story about analogies between two and three dimensions mainly, to come to an idea to percieve four and more dimensions, although for me some ideas were new, I can't say that I can imagine 4 spacial dimensins now, a two dimensional square with four one dimensional line borders leeds via a three dimensional cube with six two dimensional square sides to a fourth dimensional "supercube", with eight cubes as borders and twelve cornerpoints, how I must imagine that is not clear. But the ideas and the story are original considering the time in which the book was written.
 Free SF Reader September 3, 2007
Flat is an exercise in science fiction geometry, if you like. It shows a denizen of a 2 dimensional world seeing what it would be like to exist in higher dimensions. An interesting mathematical and philosophical exercise. Some will definitely find this very odd, and rather quirky. If you don't know what a dimension means in this sense, give it a miss.
Wonderful experience August 9, 2007
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A Valuable Idea for Science and Math Teachers August 2, 2007
3 out of 3 found this review helpful
Abbott, the author, has the reader imagine three-dimensional structures from a distant horizontal perspective. The third dimension becomes unimportant, and can be dispensed with completely. Taking this further, we are left with a "society" of circles, triangles, and other 2-D geometric figures, all living in Flatland.
As a science and math teacher, I found this book an inspiration for thought-provoking questions, such as: How would you describe the sphere to someone living in Lineland or Flatland? How, for that matter, would you communicate the very concept of thickness to someone living in Flatland? Or volume?
Visualize a sphere crossing Flatland. It starts as a point, then a circle of expanding diameter, then a circle of decreasing diameter, then a point, and then finally nothing. Other 3-D figures can be visualized in comparable manner. The possibilities are endless!
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