Flatland
Edwin A. Abbott starts his book Flatland with a very dry description of the figures in Flatland. This sets the reader up for the rest of the book, and quite simply, the rules of this foreign planet. The book is set in a world of only two dimensions, a flat land in you will. All shapes are seen as st....
Fourth Dimension
In order to talk about the fourth dimension we have to know what a dimension is. A dimension is simply, the property of space. The idea of a fourth dimension only came at the turn of the 20th century, so this theory is still quite modern. The first scientists/mathematicians to come up with this i....
Social Satire in Flatland
In Edwin Abbotts Flatland, the reader is taken on an adventure into a world of shapes and new ideas. Flatland is a two-dimensional world that is populated by figures of many shapes and sizes. To these two-dimensional creatures, everything appears to be a line. The creatures tell each other apart ....
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