Flatland Illustrated

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "a Square",[1] Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella´s more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions, for which the novella is still popular amongst mathematics, physics, and computer science students...