Flatland Contributor(s): Abbott, Edwin A. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1607961024 ISBN-13: 9781607961024 Publisher: www.bnpublishing.com OUR PRICE: $8.54 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 2009 Annotation: Unless you're a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life, these are the ones. Taken together, they form a couple of accessible and charming explanations of geometry and physics for the curious non-mathematician. Flatland,imagines a two-dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes who think their planar world is all there is. But one Flatlander, a Square, discovers the existence of a third dimension and the limits of his world's assumptions about reality and comes to understand the confusing problem of higher dimensions. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Action & Adventure |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 1280 |
Physical Information: 0.21" H x 7.44" W x 9.69" (0.43 lbs) 100 pages |
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Publisher Description: Unless you're a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life, these are the ones. Taken together, they form a couple of accessible and charming explanations of geometry and physics for the curious non-mathematician. Flatland, imagines a two-dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes who think their planar world is all there is. But one Flatlander, a Square, discovers the existence of a third dimension and the limits of his world's assumptions about reality and comes to understand the confusing problem of higher dimensions |