9780691025254-0691025258-Flatland

Flatland

ISBN-13: 9780691025254
ISBN-10: 0691025258
Edition: Softcover
Author: Edwin Abbott Abbott
Publication date: 1991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback 144 pages
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ISBN-13: 9780691025254
ISBN-10: 0691025258
Edition: Softcover
Author: Edwin Abbott Abbott
Publication date: 1991
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Format: Paperback 144 pages

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Flatland (ISBN-13: 9780691025254 and ISBN-10: 0691025258), written by authors Edwin Abbott Abbott, was published by Princeton University Press in 1991. With an overall rating of 4.5 stars, it's a notable title among other Graphics & Design (Graphics & Multimedia, Programming, Software Design, Testing & Engineering, Geometry & Topology, Mathematics) books. You can easily purchase or rent Flatland (Paperback) from BooksRun, along with many other new and used Graphics & Design books and textbooks. And, if you're looking to sell your copy, our current buyback offer is $0.52.

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In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial science-fiction favorite. By imagining the contact of beings from different dimensions, the author fully exploited the power of the analogy between the limitations of humans and those of his two-dimensional characters.


A first-rate fictional guide to the concept of multiple dimensions of space, the book will also appeal to those who are interested in computer graphics. This field, which literally makes higher dimensions seeable, has aroused a new interest in visualization. We can now manipulate objects in four dimensions and observe their three-dimensional slices tumbling on the computer screen. But how do we interpret these images? In his introduction, Thomas Banchoff points out that there is no better way to begin exploring the problem of understanding higher-dimensional slicing phenomena than reading this classic novel of the Victorian era.

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