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Flatland : an Edition with Notes and Commentary.
A fully annotated edition of Abbott's classic Flatland with notes and commentary putting it in its historical and mathematical context.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2009.
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| Colección: | Bibliografija "Spectrum."
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
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| 505 | 0 | |a Cover; Flatland: An Edition with Notes and Commentary; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; A Romance of many dimensions.; Flatland as Victorian England/Flatland as classical Greece.; Flatland and Plato's parable of the cave.; Precursors of Flatland.; Edwin Abbott Abbott.; The first and second editions of Flatland.; Subsequent editions.; This edition of Flatland.; Flatland with Notes and Commentary; Notes and Commentary; Title Page.; Dedication.; PART I THIS WORLD; Part I: THIS WORLD; 1 Of the Nature of Flatland; Notes on Section 1. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 2 Of the Climate and Houses in FlatlandNotes on Section Two; 3 Concerning the Inhabitants of Flatland; Notes on Section 3.; 4 Concerning the Women; Notes on Section 4.; 5 Of our Methods of Recognizing One Another; Notes on Section 5.; 6 Of Recognition by Sight; Notes on Section 6.; 7 Of Irregular Figures; Notes on Section 7.; 8 Of the Ancient Practice of Painting; Notes on Section 8.; 9 Of the Universal Colour Bill; Notes on Section 9.; 10 Of the Suppression of the Chromatic Sedition; Notes on Section 10.; 11 Concerning our Priests; Notes on Section 11. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 12 Of the Doctrine of our PriestsNotes on Section 12.; PART II: OTHER WORLDS; Part II: OTHER WORLDS; 13 How I had a Vision of Lineland; Notes on Section 13.; 14 How I vainly tried to explain the nature of Flatland; Notes on Section 14.; 15 Concerning a Stranger from Spaceland; Notes on Section 15.; 16 How the Stranger vainly endeavoured to reveal to me in words the mysteries of Spaceland; Notes on Section 16.; 17 How the Sphere, having in vain tried words, resorted to deeds; Notes on Section 17.; 18 How I came to Spaceland, and what I saw there; Notes on Section 18. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a 19 How, though the Sphere showed me other mysteries of Spaceland, I still desired more and what came of it; Notes on Section 19.; 20 How the Sphere encouraged me in a Vision; Notes on Section 20.; 21 How I tried to teach the Theory of Three Dimensions to my Grandson, and with what success; Notes on Section 21.; 22 How I then tried to diffuse the Theory of Three Dimensions by other means, and of the result; Notes on Section 22.; Epilogue by the Editor; Notes on the Epilogue; Continued Notes; Appendix A: Critical Reaction to Flatland; A1. Contemporary reviews. | |
| 505 | 8 | |a A2. The review of Flatland in The AthenaeumA3. Another letter from the Square; A4. James J. Sylvester and Flatland; Appendix B: The Life and Work of Edwin Abbott Abbott; Appendix B1. Abbott chronology; Appendix B2. A "mathematical biography" of Edwin Abbott Abbott4; Appendix B3. Abbott and the education of girls; Appendix B4. Abbott obituary; Recommended Reading; Abbott biography; Higher-dimensional geometry; Flatland general; Plato's Cave; Classical Greece; Victorian Britain; References; Index of Defined Words; Index. | |
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| 650 | 6 | |a Quatrième dimension. | |
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