Flatland

This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926) it describes the journeys of A. Square a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland where women-thin straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes and where men may have any number of sides depending on their social status. Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms Square has adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions) Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions) and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions—a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the author Flatland is not only fascinating reading it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space