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 …
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 …
フラットランド 多次元の冒険は、エドウィン・アボット・アボットの小説である。1884年刊。二次元の平面世界を舞台とした風刺小説である。 2002年、イアン・スチュアートが数学的な観点から詳注を付けた The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions が刊行された。現在日本で入手可能なのは、それを訳した『フラットランド …
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.