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adorará Adira ao LibraryThing para descobrir se gostará deste livro.  dark_phoenix54 | Nov 20, 2009 |  Un racconto se pur molto datato, ancora interessante. Si legge in un nientesimo di secondo [cit.] ed è abbastanza scorrevole, salvo la parte iniziale. In pratica una storia fantastica narrata da un essere che vive in un mondo a sole due dimensioni e che riesce a capire (o ci prova) altri mondi possibili che ne hanno di più (o di meno). Per certi versi ricorda 'Nel paese dei ciechi' di Wells, anche se quest ultimo a mio avviso è decisamente superiore e non solo dal punto di vista narrativo. (  ) Old_Glory | Nov 12, 2009 | Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a great little book by Edwin Abbott. Flatland is a mathematical adventure on geometry. It takes place on a two-dimensional world with a strict hierarchical society based on the shape of its individuals and it describes the consequences of the adventure of one of those individuals (a square) through the realms of three-dimensions. It's a great book that makes us think about more-than-three-dimensional spaces and objects through analogy with two- and one- and even zero-dimensional worlds. As I read this, I thought it would be interesting to see an animation version of this book, but it turns out there are already some movies on Flatland. There is even a recent one with Martin Sheen (voice). (  ) jorgecardoso | Oct 31, 2009 | This is a truly excellent book. It gave me a whole new outlook on multiple dimensions. ( )1  melydia | Oct 28, 2009 | The first part of this book, where the specifics of life in Flatland are explained, is boring and a bit awkward. It does give "life" to the inhabitants of that flat world and perhaps the rest of the book wouldn't be as captivating without it, but it feels like a kid ranting on about his cool new fantasy. Or perhaps I'm too informed in math to be thrilled by it. Actually I was disappointed by the "fog", I was expecting some motion-related means of identification. What strikes out from the description is of course the stiff class society. The idea of relating world views and actual worlds is great. I mean, how can one make a better point of someone's narrow-mindedness than exposing him to an infinitely larger world. The sphere refusing to understand or accept the possibility of higher dimensions is also a very strong scene. It can be viewed as a student questioning his mentor, who becomes aggressive, or as a reminder that although one has a reason to criticize another society, one's own is not perfect. ( ) jmattas | Sep 4, 2009 |  sem resenhas | adicionar uma resenha
Amazon.com (ISBN 048627263X, Paperback)Unless you're a mathematician, the chances of you reading any novels about geometry are probably slender. But if you read only two in your life, these are the ones. Taken together, they form a couple of accessible and charming explanations of geometry and physics for the curious non-mathematician. Flatland, which is also available under separate cover, was published in 1880 and imagines a two-dimensional world inhabited by sentient geometric shapes who think their planar world is all there is. But one Flatlander, a Square, discovers the existence of a third dimension and the limits of his world's assumptions about reality and comes to understand the confusing problem of higher dimensions. The book is also quite a funny satire on society and class distinctions of Victorian England. The further mathematical fantasy, Sphereland, published 60 years later, revisits the world of Flatland in time to explore the mind-bending theories created by Albert Einstein, whose work so completely altered the scientific understanding of space, time, and matter. Among Einstein's many challenges to common sense were the ideas of curved space, an expanding universe and the fact that light does not travel in a straight line. Without use of the mathematical formulae that bar most non-scientists from an understanding of Einstein's theories, Sphereland gives lay readers ways to start comprehending these confusing but fundamental questions of our reality.(retirado da Amazon Fri, 24 Apr 2009 07:57:53 -0400) A primeira ronda de testes foi já encerrada. Visite o grupo Open Shelves Classification para mais informação. |
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The actual purpose of the book seems to be to get people’s heads around the idea of a 4th dimension. I’m not sure he accomplished that, but it was a good read and not dated by being over a hundred years old. (