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Впервые на русском языке этот роман был издан в знаменитой научно-популярной "гарднеровской" серии издательства "Мир".
В двумерном мире Флатландия, где социальный статус жителей зависит от количества Правильных углов, представителю высшего общества — Квадрату — снятся странные сны об иных реальностях.
Он оказывается в одномерном мире, где безуспешно пытается объяснить существование второго измерения существам, не способным посмотреть за пределы вечно прямой линии, и переживает визит таинственной Сферы из трехмерного мира, раз в тысячелетие пытающейся открыть флатландцам существование Пространства…

The book that influenced writers from Carl Sagan to Stephen Hawking, Flatland is set in a two-dimensional world where life exists only in lines and shapes - until one of its inhabitants, 'A. Square', has his perspective transformed forever. This brilliantly eccentric classic is an invitation to see beyond our own reality.

With wry humor and penetrating satire, Flatland takes us on a mind-expanding journey into a different world to give us a new vision of our own. A. Square, the slightly befuddled narrator, is born into a place limited to two dimensions—irrevocably flat—and peopled by a hierarchy of geometrical forms. In a Gulliver-like tour of his bizarre homeland, A. Square spins a fascinating tale of domestic drama and political turmoil, from sex among consenting triangles to the intentional subjugation of Flatland’s females. He tells of visits to Lineland, the world of one dimension, and Pointland, the world of no dimension. But when A. Square dares to speak openly of a third, or even a fourth, dimension, his tragic fate climaxes a brilliant parody of Victorian society. An underground favorite since its publication in England in1884, Flatland is as prophetic a science fiction classic as the works of H. G. Wells, introducing aspects of relativity and hyperspace years before Einstein’s famous theories. And it does so with wonderful, enduring enchantment.

Welcome to the Essential Science Fiction Novels book series, where you will find a selection of endless tales about the incredible technologies of the future, time travel and its consequences, adventures in interstellar spaceships, strange post-apocalyptic worlds, dangerous alien invasions and everything else the authors dreamed of or feared for the future of humanity.For this book, the literary critic August Nemo has chosen the 5 novels by authors who created memorable stories that shaped the foundations of Science Fiction. Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott.Gloriana by Florence Dixie.A Trip to Mars by Francis Henry AtkinsA Journey to the Centre of the Earth by Jules Verne.The War with the Newts by Karel Capek.If you appreciate good books, be sure to check out the other Tacet Books titles!

"Флатландия" - шедевр научной фантастики и в то же время увлекательная сатира, продолжающая покорять сердца читателей на протяжении более ста лет. Произведение британского писателя Эдвина Э. Эбботта описывает путешествие математика Квадрата, обитателя Флатландии - двухмерного мира, где женщины представляют собой прямые линии, а мужчины могут иметь несколько сторон, в зависимости от социального статуса. Ряд необычных событий и странных снов приводит Квадрата к пониманию, что мир не ограничивается одним единственным измерением, которое мы способны постичь. Но как донести это откровение до остальных?
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Произведения Э.Эбботта и Д.Бюргера давно и заслуженно признаны классическими образцами популярной науки. Авторы увлекательно рассказывают о важнейших понятиях многомерной геометрии, позволяя читателю понять специфику фигур, игру пространства и роль математических принципов.

If my poor Flatland friend retained the vigour of mind which he enjoyed when he began to compose these Memoirs, I should not now need to represent him in this preface, in which he desires, fully, to return his thanks to his readers and critics in Spaceland, whose appreciation has, with unexpected celerity, required a second edition of this work; secondly, to apologize for certain errors and misprints (for which, however, he is not entirely responsible); and, thirdly, to explain one or two misconceptions. But he is not the Square he once was. Years of imprisonment, and the still heavier burden of general incredulity and mockery, have combined with the thoughts and notions, and much also of the terminology, which he acquired during his short stay in spaceland. He has, therefore, requested me to reply in his behalf to two special objections, one of an intellectual, the other of a moral nature.

'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.

Произведения Э.Эбботта и Д.Бюргера едины по своей тематике. Авторы в увлекательной форме вводят читателя в русло важных геометрических идей, таких, как размерность, связность, кривизна, демонстрируя абстрактные объекты в различных `житейских` ситуациях.

"Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it … and you will have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen."

Narrated by A. Square, Flatland is Edwin A. Abbott's delightful mathematical fantasy about life in a two-dimensional world. All existence is limited to length and breadth in Flatland, its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. Abbott's amiable narrator provides an overview of this fantastic world-its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs, and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his worldview is forever shattered.

Written more than a century ago, Flatland conceals within its brilliant parody of Victorian society speculations about the universe that resonate in Einstein's theory of relativity as well as the current "string-theory" of nature.

This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), it describes the journeys of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status.
Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms, Square has adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions) and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions—a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is not only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space. "Instructive, entertaining, and stimulating to the imagination." — Mathematics Teacher.

Авторы в увлекательной форме с неизменным юмором вводят читателя в русло важных геометрических идей, таких, как соразмерность, кривизна и тд. Книга дополнена статьями о четвертом измерении.

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Смогут ли жители одномерного мира принять то, что существует двумерное Пространство? Впервые на русском языке этот роман был издан в знаменитой научно-популярной «гарднеровской» серии издательства «Мир». В двумерном мире Флатландия, где социальный статус жителей зависит от количества Правильных углов, представителю высшего общества – Квадрату – снятся странные сны об иных реальностях. Он оказывается в одномерном мире, где безуспешно пытается объяснить существование второго измерения существам, не способным посмотреть за пределы вечно прямой линии, и переживает визит таинственной Сферы из трехмерного мира, раз в тысячелетие пытающейся открыть флатландцам существование Пространства… © Перевод. Ю. Данилов, наследники, 2023 © ООО «Издательство АСТ», 2023