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    • A Romance of Many Dimensions

    • True to its subtitle, this novel develops in several different ways.

      One dimension is the geometrical one, as it provides an inventive introduction to the concepts of point, line, plane, space, angles, figures, solids, and the inference of their equivalents in n-dimensional spaces.

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      True to its subtitle, this novel develops in several different ways.

      One dimension is the geometrical one, as it provides an inventive introduction to the concepts of point, line, plane, space, angles, figures, solids, and the inference of their equivalents in n-dimensional spaces.

      Another dimension is the satire. As in Swift did in Gulliver's Travels, Abbott describes vices and virtues of a fictious society of geometrical figures, but the reader can easily infer some remarks apply also to the Victorian England the author lived in.

      In Flatland, women are straight lines - actually, extremely thin parallelograms - while men are figures - triangles, squares, pentagons, and so on... Men are allowed to have an area, the larger the better, while women aren't. If we change area with weight, doesn't it sound like anorexia caused by social pressure?

      There is also a millennium issue, with a seemingly abortive attempt at spreading the enlightment (the so-called Gospel of Three Dimensions) and the repression enforced to preserve the status quo.

      P.S: I picked a random edition for my shelf, actually I read it on-line at http://en.wikisource.org/wiki/Flatland

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  • ― Posted on Mar 13, 2008
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