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Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Princeton Science Library) - Softcover

Abbott, Edwin Abbott

 
9780691025254: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Princeton Science Library)
Softcover
ISBN 10: 0691025258 ISBN 13: 9780691025254
Verlag: Princeton University Press, 1991

Inhaltsangabe

In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. Since thenFlatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial science-fiction favorite. By imagining the contact of beings from different dimensions, the author fully exploited the power of the analogy between the limitations of humans and those of his two-dimensional characters.


A first-rate fictional guide to the concept of multiple dimensions of space, the book will also appeal to those who are interested in computer graphics. This field, which literally makes higher dimensions seeable, has aroused a new interest in visualization. We can now manipulate objects in four dimensions and observe their three-dimensional slices tumbling on the computer screen. But how do we interpret these images? In his introduction, Thomas Banchoff points out that there is no better way to begin exploring the problem of understanding higher-dimensional slicing phenomena than reading this classic novel of the Victorian era.

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Über die Autorin bzw. den Autor

Edwin Abbott Abbott (1838-1926), the author of more than fifty books on classics, theology, history, and Shakespeare, was headmaster of the City of London School and one of the leading educators of his time. Thomas Banchoff is professor emeritus of mathematics at Brown University and author of Beyond the Third Dimension.

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Verlag
Princeton University Press
Erscheinungsdatum
1991
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0691025258
ISBN 13 
9780691025254
Einband
Taschenbuch
Anzahl der Seiten
103
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