Flatland

Flatland There are many things in this world, and in others, that I believe cannot be fully understood. For example, in the story of Flatland, A. Square explains his world and what he thinks of ours. To him, our world has space, thus calling it Spaceland, which is something they do not have in Flatland, hints the name Flat-land. In effort to explain the difference in the worlds, one would find it confusing and hard to comprehend Abbott's writing, especially for those of us who have only been told

Flatland Have you ever imagine what would be like to live in another dimension? The novel "Flatland “by Edwin A. Abbott is an imaginative, delightful book about the inhabitants of a two dimensional world. A Square, the narrator of the tale, lives in the two dimension world, where the citizens are separated into different class orders by the number of sides that they have. The children always have one side more than their fathers (women are all lines), except for triangles, which are the

The book Flatland basically describes a 2dimesional world where shapes live with no knowledge about 3 D objects moving like 3 D things or dimensions. Reading this book helped me think differently about geometry because I never would have thought much about the value of being able to see things in the way that we do. Sure in this book there weren’t any math equations in this book but the perspectives of the square character, thoughts, the flat land shapes classifications and actions made me think

Flatland Analysis The world as we know it today is three dimensional, but have you ever thought about what would happen if width did not exist? Author Edwin A. Abbot plays on this idea in his book Flatland: A romance of many dimensions. Though there are multiple characters introduced throughout the story: the main character is a square that lives in Flatland. The idea of the book is to show what the world would be like for characters who only know the land they are from. It shows the comparisons

of Flatland is similar to the structure of the 1800s, when Abbott wrote the book. The males in Flatland are shapes composed of multiple sides, while the females are only straight lines. The greater number of sides each figure has, the higher their status is. This concept is quite similar to this time in Britian, where social casts and classes were relevant. Another common theme in Flatland and in the 1800s is that members of the classes wanted to rank up and become something greater. Flatland is

Flatland Summary The book Flatland, by Edwin Abbott Abbott, is all about A. Square in a two dimensional world, called Flatland and his journey into the third dimension. The book is written in first person with the narrator being the square. The first half of the book explained all about Flatland and how everything worked in a two dimensional world. There were many different elements that had to be explained before the reader could somewhat grasp the concept of life in only two dimensions. The first

Introduction The book Flatland is based in a two-dimensional world that explores a one-dimension world, albeit briefly, and a three dimension world. On face value it seems as it is just a mathematical fiction book about a two-dimensional world, but a closer look shows the use of satire to tackle the crude social aspects of Victorian England. Before you can truly understand the profoundness of this book you should understand the author, who originally wrote it under the pseudonym A. Square. The real

"Flatland" is a story of depth, and the lack there of. The tale of A. Square's ventures through Pointland, Lineland and Spaceland ultimately reveal to him the possibilities of the seemingly impossible. In this case, the "impossibilities" are the very existence of other dimensions, or worlds. His guide throughout the journey, a god - like figure who refers to itself as "Sphere", bestows upon A. Square the greatest gift he could hope for, knowledge. It is only after the Sphere forcibly takes

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott is a thought experiment detailing what it might be like for sentient shapes to experience a normal 9 to 5 life and existence in a two dimensional world in which triangles, squares, pentagons, and other polygons coexist while knowing nothing of our three dimensional world. A dream encounter with the King of Lineland and an adventure with a Sphere from Spaceland leads our main character “A Square” to explore those worlds as well as meet the

The book has been very popular since its original publishing. It has been reprinted at least 6 times with the most recent coming from Princeton University Press in 1991. Flatland is about the adventure of A Square in Lineland and Spaceland. Abbott attempts to make popular the idea of multidimensional geometry but it also has a satire within that touches on the social, moral, and religious values of the time period. The premise