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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 then Flatland 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.… (más)
BrynDahlquis: The books are seemingly completely different, but they both are rather surreal and deal with dimensions (of a sort) and wondering if your "world" is actually all there is.
El país de 'Planilandia', como nuestro propio mundo, está a punto de iniciar el milenio. El último día del año 1999, un cuadrado – hasta aquel momento indistinguible de las otras formas de este universo de dos dimensiones – recibe el Evangelio del las Tres Dimensiones, que se revela a los planos habitantes de ese mundo sólo una vez cada mil años. Transformado por una verdad que es incapaz de ocultar, es condenado inmediatamente como hereje. Su conmovedor relato es en sí una creación multidimensional, pues no sólo supone un desafío a nuestras percepciones más básicas de la realidad cotidiana, sino que también es una aguda sátira social, así como un clarificador tratado matemático.
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
"O day and night, but this is wondrous strange"
"Fie, fie, how franticly I square my talk!"
Dedicatoria
Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
To The Inhabitants of SPACE IN GENERAL And H. C. IN PARTICULAR This Work is Dedicated By a Humble Native of Flatland In the Hope that Even as he was Initiated into the Mysteries Of THREE Dimensions Having been previously conversant With ONLY TWO So the Citizens of that Celestial Region May aspire yet higher and higher To the Secrets of FOUR FIVE OR EVEN SIX Dimensions Thereby contributing To the Enlargement of THE IMAGINATION And the possible Development Of that most rare and excellent Gift of MODESTY Among the Superior Races Of SOLID HUMANITY
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space.
Citas
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Información procedente del conocimiento común inglés.Edita para encontrar en tu idioma.
It is part of the martyrdom which I endure for the cause of the Truth that there are seasons of mental weakness, when Cubes and Spheres flit away into the background of scarce-possible existences: when the Land of Three Dimensions seems almost as visionary as the Land of One or None; nay, when even this hard wall that bars me from my freedom, these very tablets on which I am writing, and all the substantial realities of Flatland itself, appear no better than the offspring of a diseased imagination, or the baseless fabric of a dream.
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 then Flatland 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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Transformado por una verdad que es incapaz de ocultar, es condenado inmediatamente como hereje.
Su conmovedor relato es en sí una creación multidimensional, pues no sólo supone un desafío a nuestras percepciones más básicas de la realidad cotidiana, sino que también es una aguda sátira social, así como un
clarificador tratado matemático.