The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
by Ian Stewart
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Author: Ian StewartEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2008-07-22
ISBN: 0465011233
Number of pages: 272
Publisher: Basic Books
Book Reviews of The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Book Review: For over a hundred years Edwin Abbott's ANNOTATED FLATLAND has attracted readers interested in both math and satire
Summary: 5 Stars
For over a hundred years Edwin Abbott's ANNOTATED FLATLAND has attracted readers interested in both math and satires on Victorian society. This annotated version introduces readers to Flatland, where men are polygons and females are lines, and adds commentary connecting the original text with history, science and culture. The annotated version makes for a contemporary survey that science and general-interest collections alike will find compelling.
Diane C. Donovan
California Bookwatch
Summary of The Annotated Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
Like the original, Ian Stewart?s commentary takes readers on a strange and wonderful journey. With clarity and wit, Stewart illuminates Abbott?s numerous Victorian references and touches on such diverse topics as ancient Babylon, Karl Marx, Mary Shelley?s Frankenstein, Mt. Everest, H.G. Wells, and phrenology. The Annotated Flatland makes fascinating connections between Flatland and Abbott?s era, resulting in a classic to rival Abbott?s own, and a book that will inspire and delight curious readers for generations to come.
The product of an agreeably dotty cleric named Edwin Abbott Abbott and first published in 1884, Flatland distills all that the Victorian era knew of higher mathematics--and then some--into a witty, complex novel of ideas.
Ian Stewart, the author of the equally witty sequel, Flatterland--which adds to Abbott's store of science the key discoveries made since--does a superb job of explaining the original book's enigmas, allusions, ironies, implausibilities, and what Douglas Hofstadter would call "metamagical themas." Among other things, Stewart comments on Abbott's comments on such things as the nature/nurture controversy, the fourth dimension and beyond, the role of multidimensional spaces in economic systems, infinite series and perfect squares, celestial mechanics, and other matters close to the hearts of cosmologists and science buffs alike.
Stewart's notes make an entertaining and learned addition to an already classic bit of writing--one that has never been out of print since its first publication. For both devoted Abbott fans and newcomers to his work, this is the edition to have. --Gregory McNamee
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