{"product_id":"2940156920556","title":"Flatland","description":"\"O day and night, but this is wondrous strange...\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFlatland, a masterwork of science fiction by Edwin Abbot is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIt 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 only men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eIn just a few pages Abbott manages to describe an entirely self-absorbed society that is unable to accept new science or ideas that are beyond their views of normality. \u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eHis characters are all mathematical objects with a rigid hierarchy based on the number of sides a resident of Flatland has.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"This pre-Einstein geometrical fantasy is one of the best things of its kind that has ever been written... it is an easy philosophical introduction to the Fourth Dimension, and a rebuke to everyone who holds that there is no reality beyond what is perceptible by human senses.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-- Saturday Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-- Isaac Asimov\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\"One of the most imaginative, delightful and, yes, touching works of mathematics, this slender 1884 book purports to be the memoir of A. Square, a citizen of an entirely two-dimensional world.\"\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e-- Washington Post Book World","brand":"JPK","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47169963884784,"sku":"2940156920556","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940156920556_p0.jpg?v=1764090070","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940156920556","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}