Flatland

From Biography Base:Edwin Abbott Abbott, English schoolmaster and theologian, is best known as the author of the mathematical satire Flatland (1884).He was educated at the City of London School and at St John's College, Cambridge, where he took the highest honours in classics, mathematics and theology, and became fellow of his college. In 1862 he took orders. After holding masterships at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and at Clifton College, he succeeded G. F. Mortimer as headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the early age of twenty-six. He was Hulsean lecturer in 1876.He retired in 1889, and devoted himself to literary and theological pursuits. Dr. Abbott's liberal inclinations in theology were prominent both in his educational views and in his books. His Shakespearian Grammar (1870) is a permanent contribution to English philology. In 1885 he published a life of Francis Bacon. His theological writings include three anonymously published religious romances - Philochristus (1878), Onesimus (1882), and Sitanus (1906).More weighty contributions are the anonymous theological discussion The Kernel and the Husk (1886), Philomythus (1891), his book The Anglican Career of Cardinal Newman (1892), and his article "The Gospels" in the ninth edition of the Encyclopædia Britannica, embodying a critical view which caused considerable stir in the English theological world. He also wrote St Thomas of Canterbury, his Death and Miracles (1898), Johannine Vocabulary (1905), Johannine Grammar (1906). Flatland was published in 1884.Sources that say he is the brother of Evelyn Abbott (1843 - 1901), who was a well-known tutor of Balliol College, Oxford, and author of a scholarly history of Greece, are in error.

出版者:Dover Publications

作者:Edwin A. Abbott

页数:96

出版时间:1992-9-21

价格:USD 3.00

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780486272634

图书标签:科幻数学小说哲学平面国英国EdwinAbbottflatland

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'Upward, yet not Northward.' How would a creature limited to two dimensions be able to grasp the possibility of a third? Edwin A. Abbott's droll and delightful 'romance of many dimensions' explores this conundrum in the experiences of his protagonist, A Square, whose linear world is invaded by an emissary Sphere bringing the gospel of the third dimension on the eve of the new millennium. Part geometry lesson, part social satire, this classic work of science fiction brilliantly succeeds in enlarging all readers' imaginations beyond the limits of our 'respective dimensional prejudices'. In a world where class is determined by how many sides you possess, and women are straight lines, the prospects for enlightenment are boundless, and Abbott's hypotheses about a fourth and higher dimensions seem startlingly relevant today. This new edition of Flatland illuminates the social and intellectual context that produced the work as well as the timeless questions that it raises about the limits of our perception and knowledge. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

读后感

对于《平面之国》这部小说的分类，历来有两种不同的观点。 第一种意见是把它列为“科学小说”。从这个意义上讲，作者艾勃特运用深入浅出的语言，借助清晰严谨的结构，引人入胜的想象，以及滑稽生动的实例，向读者呈现了点（零维）、直线（一维）、平面（二维）以及空间（三维）...  

《生活大爆炸》里，谢耳朵有一次说：Sometimes when I feel stifled and want a change of scenery, I use my imagination. One of my favorite places to visit is the two dimensional world described in Edwin Abbott's mathematical fantasy, "Flatland." 这本一百多年以...  

用户评价

谢耳朵喜欢的二维世界，《生活大爆炸》里的点评鞭辟入里，本书是对维多利亚道德风尚的隐晦批评。

有趣的想象，俺小时候怎么就看不到这类书呢

大赞！堪比1984！视角非常漂亮！！

Well，其实更像是现实讽刺小说

很有滋味。对二维世界不仅有逻辑与数学角度的构想（男女以及个体识别），更延伸到了意识形态、思想文化以及宗教信仰等层面（边数决定等级）。比如说Colour Bill Revolution， Purgation of the Irregularities。最有趣还是如何让我们试图理解四维世界。对一维人而言，二维人能看穿其身体内部并将视线扩展；对二维人而言三维人也能“看透”其身体和建筑物，犹如在身体内侧也有眼。就好比理论上任意一高纬度看低纬度世界的感觉都是一致的，但要回溯这个流程，让低纬度一方去设想高纬度的世界就很难。O_O似乎只有在心慌方里见到过对四维世界的简陋演绎。三体所描述的四维视角，我们的五脏六腑变成了一个有眼的单独维度，实在是很难脱离理论从实际层面领会那种奥妙。