Edwin Abbott

Flatland

A Romance in Many Dimensions
Mitarbeit:Lightman, Alan

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A work that poses provocative questions about perception and reality. It is a parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadth - its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. It provides an overview of this world - its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs and religious beliefs.

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Produktdetails

• Penguin Classics
• Verlag: Penguin US
• Artikelnr. des Verlages: 41355
• 1998.
• Seitenzahl: 144
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juni 1998
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 129mm x 12mm
• Gewicht: 116g
• ISBN-13: 9780140435313
• ISBN-10: 014043531X
• Artikelnr.: 09778048

Autorenporträt

Edwin A. Abbott (1838–1926) was a leading scholar and theologian of the Victorian era. Alan Lightman (introduction), the author of Einstein's Dream and other books, is an astrophysicist and the director of the writing program at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Rezensionen

At once a classic of science fiction, a playful brainteaser about geometry, a pointed satire of Victorian manners and, finally, a strangely compelling argument about reason, faith, and the greatest mysteries of the universe. The Wall Street Journal