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Edwin Abbott Abbott

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Flatland, Edwin Abbott Abbott's story of a two-dimensional universe, as told by one of its inhabitants who is introduced to the mysteries of three-dimensional space, has enjoyed an enduring popularity from the time of its publication in 1884. This fully annotated edition enables the modern-day reader to understand and …

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A century-old classic of British letters that charmed and fascinated generations of readers with its witty satire of Victorian society and its unique insights, by analogy, into the fourth dimension.

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Flatland est une allégorie écrite en 1884, où l'auteur, Edwin Abbott Abbott, donne vie aux dimensions géométriques, le point, la ligne et les surfaces, avant d'en arriver à faire découvrir l'univers des volumes par un carré. Cette allégorie n'est pas sans rappeler la sortie de la caverne, voire le cheminement de Don …

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Flatland est une allégorie écrite en 1884, où l'auteur, Edwin Abbott Abbott, donne vie aux dimensions géométriques, le point, la ligne et les surfaces, avant d'en arriver à faire découvrir l'univers des volumes par un carré. Cette allégorie n'est pas sans rappeler la sortie de la caverne, voire le cheminement de Don …

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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 …