Flatland e-bog
30,98 DKK
(inkl. moms 38,72 DKK)
Edwin A. Abbott's hallucinatory tale has captivated readers for more than a hundred yearsincluding contemporary scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. In this mind-expanding satire, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions describes a two-dimensional world organized by strict caste system of geometrical forms. The narrator, A. Square, introduces us to Flatland before describing his re...
E-bog
30,98 DKK
Forlag
Warbler Classics
Udgivet
10 august 2019
Længde
40 sider
Genrer
FA
Sprog
English
Format
epub
Beskyttelse
LCP
ISBN
9781733561631
Edwin A. Abbott's hallucinatory tale has captivated readers for more than a hundred yearsincluding contemporary scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. In this mind-expanding satire, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions describes a two-dimensional world organized by strict caste system of geometrical forms. The narrator, A. Square, introduces us to Flatland before describing his revelatory explorations of Lineland, a one-dimensional world, and Pointland, a world of no dimensions, and the hitherto inconceivable three-dimensional world of Spaceland, through which he is ushered by his Virgil-like guide, Sphere. In Flatland, Square is regarded as a heretic and imprisoned for his belief in the existence of a third, and possibly even a fourth, dimension. Although it did not achieve popular success on its publication in 1884, Flatland gained a broad audience after the publication of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which focused attention on the concept of a fourth dimension. The book enjoyed another renaissance with the advent of modern science fiction in the late 1930s and is now widely acknowledged as a pioneering work of mathematical fiction.Includes the authors original illustrations and a short biography.