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Makes you think about perspective...:

In this book, Abbott uses the best tool available to those of us who try to understand the incomprehensible: analogy. "Mr. A. Square" is a man that lives in the two-dimensional world "Flatland," and through strange phenominon that leave him branded as a heretic, he visits the 1- and 3-dimensional worlds. He sees that many things are just about perspective.

Flatland was written in a time before computers, and when "higher dimensions" were still about space and perception and analogy rather than some... more info

...1 dimension, 2 dimensions, 3 dimensions, ... n dimensions:

Flatland is Edwin A. Abbott's depiction of A. Square's (the story's narrator) odyssey though the spaces of many dimensions. It was written in Victorian England and is a very stylized piece. The book is divided into two parts. In Part I of the book Abbott describes Flatland and particularly its social structure in a satirical nature (akin to Animal Farm). Part II of the book is where the more mathematical and geometrical concepts are expounded upon. This section of the book is also written in the spirit of... more info

A Book that Introduces the Reader to Strange, New Lands:

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In order to understand this twenty-two chapter book (first published in the mid-1880s) by Edwin A. Abbot (1838 to 1926), you have to understand what is meant by the word "dimension," a word in the book's subtitle "A Romance of Many Dimensions." A dimension is any measureable distance such as length or width. So something that has one dimension has only one measurable distance, something that has two dimensions has two measurable distances, and so on. You also have to realize that there are... more info

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