Edwin Abbott Abbott

Flatland is one of the very few novels about math and philosophy that can appeal to almost any layperson. Published in 1880, this short fantasy takes us to a completely flat world of two physical dimensions where all the inhabitants are geometric shapes, and who think the planar world of length and width that they …

A century-old classic of British letters that charmed and fascinated generations of readers with its witty satire of Victorian society and its unique insights, by analogy, into the fourth dimension.

Flatland, Edwin Abbott Abbott's story of a two-dimensional universe, as told by one of its inhabitants who is introduced to the mysteries of three-dimensional space, has enjoyed an enduring popularity from the time of its publication in 1884. This fully annotated edition enables the modern-day reader to understand and …

《平面国》是英国教师埃德温·A·艾勃特一本出版于1884年的讽刺中篇小说。艾勃特借由此书中虚构的二维空间平面国国民“正方形”一角来表达对于维多利亚时代阶层制度的尖锐评论。然而，这本中篇小说更长远的贡献是对于维度的审视。在本书众多版本中有一段名科幻作家以撒·艾西莫夫写的序言评道，《平面国》是“一个人所能找到对于维度概念的感受方法中最好的”。本书因而仍旧受数学、物理学和计算机科学的学生所喜爱。另外，已有几部电影改编自此书。 …

艾勃特著的《平面国(一个多维的传奇故事)》讲述：有一个国家，名叫平面国，在这个国家里，一切都是平面的，国土是平面的，山川河流是平面的，连人也是平面的：贫穷卑微的是等腰三角形，高贵的是圆形，让人害怕的是直线......平面国里的房屋建造、行走规则、辨认方式以及阶级斗争也都自成一体、妙趣横生。 …