Flatland: An Edition with Notes and Commentary (Spectrum)

Abbott, Edwin A.,Lindgren, William F.,Banchoff, Thomas F.

ISBN 10: 0521759943 / ISBN 13: 9780521759946

Published by American Mathematical Society, 2009

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flatland: An Edition with Notes and Commentary (Spectrum)
• Publisher: American Mathematical Society
• Publication Date: 2009
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0521759943
• ISBN 13: 9780521759946
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

This is a fully annotated edition of Edwin Abbott Abbott's classic work Flatland. Including mathematical notes and historical notes that show connections to late-Victorian England and to classical Greece, citations from Abbott's other writings, and commentary on language and literary style enhance the usefulness of Flatland as an elementary introduction to higher-dimensional geometry.

About the Authors

William F. Lindgren is a Professor of Mathematics at Slippery Rock University. He is the author of Quasi-Uniform Spaces (1982) with Peter Fletcher and has given many talks about Flatland at various conferences, including the Joint Meetings of the AMS/MAA.

Thomas F. Banchoff is a Professor of Mathematics at Brown University. He is the author of Beyond the Third Dimension and Linear Algebra Through Geometry (with John Wermer) and the editor of a reprint of Henry P. Manning's The Fourth Dimension Simply Explained.