Flatland - A Romance of Many Dimensions

Edwin Abbot

Dover Publications

1992

83 páginas

2h 46m

ISBN-13: 9780486272634

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 (1883 - 1926), it describes the journey of A. Square (pseudonym which the author used in the first publications), a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women - thin, straight lines - are the lowliest of shapes, and where man 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 whcih he is returned to his two-dimensional world.

Resenhas (7)

5 (Perfeito)

Upward, not Northward

Would it be amusing for one being to contemplate more than our usual three dimensions reality conjecture? Confined to a limited dimensionality, Abbott invite us to stretch our imagination in a multidimensional romance, when suddenly a visitor from the third dimension manifests itself in the two dimensional world, the Flatland.
If somehow we could behold the fourth dimension and expand our scope of reality, the inferred conjecture when in comparison that we so vainly try to synthesize and always end up with analogies could reveal itself poor, shadowy and not solid at all. Many eyes would indicate incredulity, calling it madness, hell, tricks by enchanters, when it’s just knowledge.
To paint a picture of a lesser dimension it’s quite easy when you live in a higher one, but when you invert the papers, it is by no means a simple matter. We can only speculate a direction in which we cannot look and even granting the facts, each individual explain them in different ways.
Hungry for empirical truths, the facts not yet discovered before us could be beneficial to our understanding. In a not so distant future, the exponencial terminal points conceit should not limit or spread fear in our miserable race. It should bring enlightenment and a greater hunger, a rebel spirit for the objective truth.

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