Plot Summary of Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions
February 27, 2008 |13:41 | Fantasy By : Team X
"This book is about Square, a mathematician who lives in two-dimensional Flatland. He is a very lawful citizen, and goes out of his way to explain to his grandchildren that there is no third dimension, even theoretically. But when he is visited by a sphere from Spaceland, he finds it hard to deny the reality of a third dimension. He is given further reason to consider this possibility when he is granted the rare chance to visit Lineland. He is baffled when the king and queen of that country refuse to acknowledge his existance, because they cannot, in their sphere of experience, imagine that there could be any dimension higher than the first. He is finally convinced when the Sphere allows him to visit Spaceland, where he is able to experience first-hand the third dimension - something he never thought was possible when he lived in Flatland. He then tries his best to convince the rest of the two-dimensional shapes that there's a third dimension, even though they can't see or imagine it. "
Phoenix Rye, Resident Scholar
6 Comments
asssssss
May 11, 2008 |01:33
this book sucks all ur balls''
asssssss
May 11, 2008 |01:33
this book sucks all ur balls''
asssssss
May 11, 2008 |01:33
this book sucks all ur balls''
GEOMETRY SUCKSS.
May 22, 2008 |02:55
this book is lammeeee and dumb and stupid and i cant believe we had to read it for a math class wtf! omg this is sooo dumb. you must have NO life to have to write about talking objects! LAMMEEE.
MiniStephan
November 3, 2008 |09:22
You people obviously have no appreciation for how the universe works (theoretically). I think the book is a perfect analogy for comparing our dimension to others.
kristina
February 4, 2010 |05:27
this book i have to admit was very boring and dull and a complete waste of time i mean seriously who cares?! i hated when we had to read it in math i had better things to do then read a boring book about shapes....who cares if the book was a perfect analogy it was boring!!!!!!
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