Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Abbott Edwin Abbott
Автор: Abbott Edwin Abbott Название: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions ISBN: 1781390983 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781781390986 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 26190.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Abbott Edwin A. Название: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions ISBN: 1618954970 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781618954978 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 36330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Abbott Edwin Abbott Название: Flatland ISBN: 1389305023 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781389305023 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 38950.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, whereof women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a square named A Square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The first half of the story goes through the practicalities of existing in a two-dimensional universe as well as a history leading up to the year 1999 on the eve of the 3rd Millennium. On New Year's Eve, the Square dreams about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland) inhabited by "lustrous points". These points are unable to see the Square as anything other than a set of points on a line. Thus, the Square attempts to convince the realm's monarch of a second dimension; but is unable to do so. In the end, the monarch of Lineland tries to kill A Square rather than tolerate his nonsense any further.
Автор: Abbott, Edwin Название: Flatland: a romance of many dimensions ISBN: 1640320822 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781640320826 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 19330.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание:
Unabridged, illustrated value reproduction of Flatland by Edwin Abbott, in this affordably printed volume, is a book that belongs on everyone's shelf.
Published originally in 1884, Abbott's novella was a social commentary told through mathematical a framework. With Einstein's 1915 publication of the Theory of Relativity, Flatland became popular as a prophet of four dimensions.
This Value Classic Reprint provides a slim volume with full text and illustrations of this timeless classic at an affordable price.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
PART I THIS WORLD 4 1.--OF THE NATURE OF FLATLAND. 4 2.--OF THE CLIMATE AND HOUSES IN FLATLAND. 5 3.--CONCERNING THE INHABITANTS OF FLATLAND. 6 4.--CONCERNING THE WOMEN. 8 5.--OF OUR METHODS OF RECOGNIZING ONE ANOTHER. 10 6.--OF RECOGNITION BY SIGHT. 12 7.--OF IRREGULAR FIGURES. 14 8.--OF THE ANCIENT PRACTICE OF PAINTING. 16 9.--OF THE UNIVERSAL COLOR BILL. 17 10.--OF THE SUPPRESSION OF THE CHROMATIC SEDITION. 19 11.--CONCERNING OUR PRIESTS. 21 12.--OF THE DOCTRINE OF OUR PRIESTS. 22 PART II OTHER WORLDS 25 13.--HOW I HAD A VISION OF LINELAND. 25 14.--HOW I VAINLY TRIED TO EXPLAIN THE NATURE OF FLATLAND. 27 15.--CONCERNING A STRANGER FROM SPACELAND. 29 16.--HOW THE STRANGER VAINLY ENDEAVORED TO REVEAL TO ME IN WORDS THE MYSTERIES OF SPACELAND. 31 17.--HOW THE SPHERE, HAVING IN VAIN TRIED WORDS, RESORTED TO DEEDS. 34 18.--HOW I CAME TO SPACELAND, AND WHAT I SAW THERE. 35 19.--HOW, THOUGH THE SPHERE SHOWED ME OTHER MYSTERIES OF SPACELAND, I STILL DESIRED MORE; AND WHAT CAME OF IT. 38 20.--HOW THE SPHERE ENCOURAGED ME IN A VISION. 41 21.--HOW I TRIED TO TEACH THE THEORY OF THREE DIMENSIONS TO MY GRANDSON, AND WITH WHAT SUCCESS. 42 22.--HOW I THEN TRIED TO DIFFUSE THE THEORY OF THREE DIMENSIONS BY OTHER MEANS, AND OF THE RESULT. 43
Автор: Abbott Edwin A. Название: Flatland ISBN: 1607961075 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781607961079 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 22980.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Abbott Edwin A. Название: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions ISBN: 0451417852 ISBN-13(EAN): 9780451417855 Издательство: Random House (USA) Цена: 4260.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: With wry humor and penetrating satire, Flatland takes us on a mind-expanding journey into a different world to give us a new vision of our own. A. Square, the slightly befuddled narrator, is born into a place limited to two dimensions--irrevocably flat--and peopled by a hierarchy of geometrical forms. In a Gulliver-like tour of his bizarre homeland, A. Square spins a fascinating tale of domestic drama and political turmoil, from sex among consenting triangles to the intentional subjugation of Flatland's females. He tells of visits to Lineland, the world of one dimension, and Pointland, the world of no dimension. But when A. Square dares to speak openly of a third, or even a fourth, dimension, his tragic fate climaxes a brilliant parody of Victorian society. An underground favorite since its publication in England in1884, Flatland is as prophetic a science fiction classic as the works of H. G. Wells, introducing aspects of relativity and hyperspace years before Einstein's famous theories. And it does so with wonderful, enduring enchantment. With an Introduction by Valerie Smith and a New Afterword by John Allen Paulos
Автор: Abbott, Edwin A. Название: Flatland ISBN: 1617430099 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781617430091 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 19300.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ.
Автор: Abbott, Edwin Abbott Название: Flatland ISBN: 160444102X ISBN-13(EAN): 9781604441024 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 14490.00 T Наличие на складе: Есть у поставщика Поставка под заказ. Описание: Very popular amongst mathematics, physics, and computer science students, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott. Writing pseudonymously as "a square", Abbott used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to offer pointed observations on the social hierarchy of Victorian culture. However, the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions; in a foreword to one of the many publications of the novella, noted science writer Isaac Asimov described Flatland as "The best introduction one can find into the manner of perceiving dimensions" Several films have been made from the story, including a feature film in 2007 called Flatland. Other efforts have been short or experimental films, including one narrated by Dudley Moore and a short film with Martin Sheen titled Flatland: The Movie.
Автор: Abbott Edwin A. Название: Clue: A Guide Through Greek to Hebrew Scripture ISBN: 1070247073 ISBN-13(EAN): 9781070247076 Издательство: Неизвестно Цена: 10290.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: The primary object of this work is to indicate means for constructing a clue by which scholars may systematically find their way through any Greek translation from Hebrew back to the Hebrew original. The secondary object is to demonstrate that parts of the Synoptic Gospels are based upon a common original Hebrew document, not Aramaic, but Hebrew in the strict sense, biblical Hebrew.Another object is to give specimens of the manner in which one may employ the clue so as to return from the Gospels to their original Hebrew. Some years ago, the notion that a Jewish Christian would write a Gospel in Hebrew, a dead language, might have been dismissed by many as absurd. But the recent discovery of the lost Hebrew of portions of Ecclesiasticus reveals a Jew, long after Hebrew had ceased to be spoken, writing with fair success in "biblical Hebrew," just as the chroniclers of the life of St. Francis might write the Saint's words (as well as his deeds) in Latin, though St. Francis spoke in Italian. This in itself - apart from the opinion of so learned and laborious a scholar as Professor Resch - ought to convince people that there is no antecedent improbability in the hypothesis that the earliest written Gospel was composed in biblical Hebrew.From this original Hebrew to ascend still further to the Galilaean Aramaic actually uttered by our Lord, is a different object - possibly attainable, and certainly not underrated by the author, but not contemplated in this treatise. On the hypothesis of a Hebrew Gospel, the differences between Aramaic and Hebrew will not be likely to affect that large portion of the Gospels in which the evangelists, speaking in their own person, describe Christ's birth, death, resurrection, and miracles. The earliest Christian ecclesiastical historian, Papias, tells us that "Matthew composed the "Logia" in the Hebrew language, and each one interpreted them as he could." This external evidence dissipates a good deal of the alleged improbability of a Hebrew original. However, neither external evidence nor antecedent probabilities will find much space in the following pages. For it is there maintained that the internal evidence derivable from a Greek document can as absolutely and scientifically demonstrate translation from biblical Hebrew documents, as fossils in a rock can demonstrate the action of water. The details of the demonstration will be often necessarily technical, but its fundamental principles can be made clear to the simplest intelligence. And even of the details a large number can be mastered without knowledge of any ancient language. For the scholar, the statements made in the text will be demonstrated by quotations from the Hebrew Bible and from the Greek translations of it. These the "unlearned" reader will be unable to understand. Similarly, in a Court of Justice, a juror may be unable to understand the words of a foreign witness. He depends on the interpreter. But he is not thereby excluded from giving a verdict, and his verdict is generally right. This is as it should be. It seems intolerable that, on points vitally affecting the religion and spiritual development of the multitudes, the ultimate judgment should rest with a few linguistic or theological specialists. The truth is - and to show that it is true is another object of this work - that what is called "the higher criticism" is simply scientific investigation and classification submitted to the judgment of common sense.
Автор: Abbott Edwin Abbott Название: Flatland: A Romance Of Many Dimensions ISBN: 9353424461 ISBN-13(EAN): 9789353424466 Издательство: Неизвестно Рейтинг: Цена: 11650.00 T Наличие на складе: Невозможна поставка. Описание: This book is a result of an effort made by us towards making a contribution to the preservation and repair of original classic literature. In an attempt to preserve, improve and recreate the original content, we have worked towards: 1. Type-setting & Reformatting: The complete work has been re-designed via professional layout, formatting and type-setting tools to re-create the same edition with rich typography, graphics, high quality images, and table elements, giving our readers the feel of holding a 'fresh and newly' reprinted and/or revised edition, as opposed to other scanned & printed (Optical Character Recognition - OCR) reproductions. 2. Correction of imperfections: As the work was re-created from the scratch, therefore, it was vetted to rectify certain conventional norms with regard to typographical mistakes, hyphenations, punctuations, blurred images, missing content/pages, and/or other related subject matters, upon our consideration. Every attempt was made to rectify the imperfections related to omitted constructs in the original edition via other references. However, a few of such imperfections which could not be rectified due to intentional\unintentional omission of content in the original edition, were inherited and preserved from the original work to maintain the authenticity and construct, relevant to the work. We believe that this work holds historical, cultural and/or intellectual importance in the literary works community, therefore despite the oddities, we accounted the work for print as a part of our continuing effort towards preservation of literary work and our contribution towards the development of the society as a whole, driven by our beliefs. We are grateful to our readers for putting their faith in us and accepting our imperfections with regard to preservation of the historical content. HAPPY READING
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