Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Annotated) (eBook, ePUB)
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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a literary hybrid. It is a math- and science-based novella that creates a fictional land while at the same time satirizing Victorian culture and introducing theories of space's multi-dimensional nature. Flatland is a two-dimensional world chronicling the adventures of A. Square (a pseudonym originally given as the author of the book), a mathematician who lives there. Women are straight lines and are considered the lowest of shapes. Men are polygons and the number of sides they have is dependent on their ranking in the social hierarchy. Odd and unexpected incidents bring A. Square together with numerous other geometric shapes. Some of the places he ventures into are Spaceland, which has three dimensions, Lineland, which is one-dimensional, and Pointland, which does not have any dimensions. A. Square also imagines a land with four dimensions, which is considered a subversive concept. The actual author of the 1884 book is Edwin Abbott Abbott, an English schoolteacher.The narrator, A. Square, is a member of the professional caste in society and begins the story leading his life in a two-dimensional world. That women are but simple line-segments and men are polygons with many sides gives the book a symbolic and metaphoric slant right from the start. It is New Year's Eve and Square dreams of visiting Lineland, a one-dimensional world where lustrous points live. In the dream, he imagines killing the monarch ruling the realm but is unsuccessful. The monarch in turn tries to kill Square rather than put up with him. After this, Square receives a visitor.A three-dimensional sphere, named appropriately, A. Sphere, appears to Square. Square does not know what to make of this until he sees the three-dimensional Spaceland firsthand. It turns out that Sphere appears in Flatland at the beginning of each millennium and teaches a new follower about the concept of a third dimension hoping to one day educate everyone in Flatland. From Spaceland, they can see the leaders of Flatland as they talk of knowing there is a third dimension and threating anyone who spreads word of its existence. Many witnesses to this announcement are killed or put in prison including B, who is the brother of Square.At this point in the narrative, Square has become open to the idea of additional dimensions. He attempts to persuade Sphere that there could be fourth and fifth dimensions and even beyond. Sphere does not pursue this line of discussion and returns Square to Flatland. Square has another dream. In this one, Sphere appears to him again, this time taking him to Pointland where the point is the only resident and is the universe and the monarch. Any communication that takes place, Point believes, is from his own mind, implying that he lacks the ability to imagine anyone but himself. Sphere tells Square that there is nothing to be done to save Point from his omniscient view of himself.Square comes to realize the ignorance of the Pointland and Lineland monarchs. He acknowledges his own ignorance he had to overcome with respect to the existence of higher dimensions. He is, however, not able to try to convince anyone in Flatland that Spaceland does in fact exist because of the rules that were passed prohibiting any talk of other dimensions. Eventually, he is imprisoned like his brother before him. He sees his brother from time to time, having been placed in the same prison, although in spite of all they have both experienced, he cannot convince even his brother of other dimensions. Square then writes a book, Flatland, as a memoir, hoping it will preserve the ideas he wants to spread, and that it will serve to help future generations see beyond the limits of a two-dimensional world.

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This is the annotated and summarized version of this book. This summarized version consists of 18000 words in approxamte. Table of Contents added for easier navigation. You can read any chapter or the main summary directly with 1 click if you want to. The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, where women are simple line segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The first half of the story goes through the practicalities of existing in a two-dimensional universe as well as a history leading up to the year 1999 on the eve of the 3rd Millennium. On New Year's Eve, the Square dreams about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland) inhabited by "lustrous points". These points are unable to see the Square as anything other than a set of points on a line. Thus, the Square attempts to convince the realm's monarch of a second dimension; but is unable to do so. In the end, the monarch of Lineland tries to kill A Square rather than tolerate his nonsense any further. Following this vision, he is visited by a three-dimensional sphere. Similar to the "points" in Lineland, the Square is unable to see the sphere as anything other than a circle. The Sphere then levitates up and down through the Flatland, allowing Square to see the circle expand and retract. The Square is not fully convinced until he sees Spaceland (a tridimensional world) for himself. This Sphere visits Flatland at the turn of each millennium to introduce a new apostle to the idea of a third dimension in the hope of eventually educating the population of Flatland. From the safety of Spaceland, they are able to observe the leaders of Flatland secretly acknowledging the existence of the sphere and prescribing the silencing of anyone found preaching the truth of Spaceland and the third dimension. After this proclamation is made, many witnesses are massacred or imprisoned (according to caste), including A Square's brother, B. After Square's mind is opened to new dimensions, he tries to convince the Sphere of the theoretical possibility of the existence of a fourth and higher spatial dimension; but the Sphere returns his student to Flatland in disgrace. The Square then has a dream in which the Sphere visits him again, this time to introduce him to Portland, whereof the point (sole inhabitant, monarch, and the universe in one) perceives any communication as a thought originating in his own mind (cf. Solipsism): "You see," said my Teacher, "how little your words have done. So far as the Monarch understands them at all, he accepts them as his own - for he cannot conceive of any other except himself - and plumes himself upon the variety of Its Thought as an instance of creative Power. Let us leave this God of Portland to the ignorant fruition of his omnipresence and omniscience: nothing that you or I can do can rescue him from his self-satisfaction." - the Sphere.

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IN HIS 1884 SATIRICAL NOVELLA, FLATLAND, ENGLISH SCHOOL TEACHER EDWIN ABBOTT CONTENDS THAT VICTORIAN SOCIETY IS SPLIT INTO WONDERFUL TRAINING AND THAT THE PRIMARY AIM OF EVERYBODY IS TO CLIMB THE SOCIAL LADDER AS FAST AS FEASIBLE. HOWEVER, DESPITE THE FACT THAT SOCIAL ASCENT IS TECHNICALLY OPEN TO EVERY PERSON, SIMPLEST THE ONES ON THE VERY PINNACLE RUNG OF THE LADDER HAVE THE RIGHT TO MENTION WHO IS GOING TO BE SOCIALLY EXTENDED AND WHO ISN'T ALWAYS. ALTHOUGH BRITAIN IS CHECKED OUT AS AN UNFASTENED UNITED STATES OF AMERICA, ABBOTT INDICATES THAT THIS IS NOT THE CASE, AND THAT LEGAL GUIDELINES ARE CRUELLY MEANT TO HOLD ANYONE IN THEIR REGION AND TO SAVE YOU EXCELLENCE OR GROWTH.FLATLAND IS AN AREA IN WHICH THE ENTIRETY IS TWO-DIMENSIONAL AND OCCUPIED VIA GEOMETRIC FIGURES. MEN ARE POLYGONS AND LADIES TRACES. THE NARRATOR IS A RESPECTED PROFESSIONAL REPRESENTED BY MEANS OF A RECTANGULAR. HE DESCRIBES TO THE READER THE COMPLICATIONS OF LIVING IN A TWO-DIMENSIONAL GLOBAL A MILLENNIA INTO THE FUTURE AND PAST.ALTHOUGH THE NOVELLA SEEMS TO BE A GROUNDBREAKING AND ACERBIC SATIRE APPROXIMATELY LIFESTYLES IN VICTORIAN BRITAIN, IT MADE BUT A TINY BLEMISH ON THE LITERARY LANDSCAPE. SCIENTISTS INTERESTED BY THE PROBLEM OF DIMENSIONS OF THE UNIVERSE IN LARGE PART LEFT OUT IT BECAUSE OF ITS CONTENTION THAT IT TURNED INTO A SOCIAL PARODY. SOCIAL COMMENTATORS GAVE IT A NORMALLY EXTENSIVE BERTH DUE TO THE FACT THEY DID NO LONGER UNDERSTAND THE DIMENSIONAL THING TO IT IN ANY RESPECT; BUT, AFTER EINSTEIN'S PRINCIPLE OF RELATIVITY PRECIPITATED A RESURGENCE OF HOBBY INSIDE THE NOVELLA AND ABBOTT BECOME DECLARED A PROPHET AND A MAN IN ADVANCE OF HIS TIME. STEPHEN HAWKING REFERENCED ABBOTT IN HIS E BOOK A BRIEF HISTORY OF TIME.

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Independently published, Taschenbuch, Publiziert: 2020-08-30T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book.

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Independently published, Taschenbuch, Publiziert: 2020-07-25T00:00:01Z, Produktgruppe: Book.