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This book does not aim to entertain through literally beauty but to open the reader's mind. Using the description of the Flatland's society the author explain his point of view of our own world in different aspects that go from politics to religion. Especially fascinating is the encounter among beings of different dimensions... "Either this is madness or it is Hell." "It is neither," calmly replied the voice of the Sphere, "it is Knowledge; it is Three Diemnsions:", in a clear allusion to our ow
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This was an interesting and quick read. A nerdy math vision of a different sort from a time long ago and far away.
This book apart from being a good guide to teaching the concepts of dimensions using mathematical figures, is also a satirical commentary of class of Victorian society. The satire in this is book is applicable to any society, any age and any domain where unjust discrimination exists.
Considered science fiction because it concerns other worlds than our own, this was pretty unique in that the inhabitants are geometric shapes rather than people, and their perspective being two- instead of three-dimensional.
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