Flatland

By Edwin Abbott Abbott

Categories: Literature & Fiction

Classic of science (and mathematical) fiction — charmingly illustrated by the author — describes the adventures of A. Square, a resident of Flatland, in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension), and Pointland (no dimensions).

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• Bryan Johnson
• Neil deGrasse Tyson: “Edwin Abbott's Flatland (1884). Read it in middle school. It's an entertaining journey into higher-dimensional thinking”