Flatland has been discovered with delight by each generation since it was issued, and has remained in print since then. Introductions have pointed out the applicability to modern art, 20th-century physics, computer graphics and modeling, and exploratory data analysis. by Edwin A. Abbott. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a classic 19th century novella that satirizes the social hierarchy of Victorian society using mathematical figures . The mathematical, satirical, and religious allegory Flatland by a little-known but immensely prolific Victorian English schoolmaster and theologian Edwin Abbott Abbott, was first published anonymously in England in — Abbott wrote it under the name "A Square." The unique geometrical romance which is Flatland posited a world and its inhabitants that exist in only two dimensions and forces the reader Cited by:
Flatland: Parent(s) Edwin and Jane Abbott: Edwin Abbott Abbott FBA (20 December - 12 October ) was an English schoolmaster, theologian, and Anglican priest, best known as the author of the novella Flatland (). Biography. Edwin Abbott Abbott was the eldest son of Edwin. Finishing Flatland, a novella published by British mathematician and teacher Edwin Abbott a good 20 years before Einstein's General Theory of Relativity and the growth of quantum mechanics, leaves the reader wondering what Abbott could possibly have known about these later figures and events. But the book's very existence underscores just how fundamental those 20 th century ideas are. With dry wit and wild imagination, author Edwin Abbott Abbott builds a meticulous fantasy world rooted in an astute apprehension of psychology, politics, and social structures, as well as basic geometry. The story of Flatland, at once ridiculous and profound, delivers an incisive satire of social discourse that remains remarkably relevant today.
Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in Written pseudonymously by "A Square",the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. Flatland A romance of many dimensions With Illustrations by the Author, A SQUARE (Edwin A. Abbott ) To The Inhabitants of SPACE IN GENERAL And H. C. IN. by Edwin A. Abbott. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a classic 19th century novella that satirizes the social hierarchy of Victorian society using mathematical figures and ideas. Source: Abbott, E. A. ().
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