Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions Audiobook (Free)

This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire which has charmed readers for a lot more than 100 years. The task of British clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), it describes the journeys of the. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, direct lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where guys may have any number of sides, depending on their interpersonal status. Through strange occurrences that bring him into connection with a bunch of geometric forms, Square offers escapades in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no sizes) and ultimately entertains thoughts of going to a land of four proportions– a innovative idea for which he is came back to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland isn’t only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate imaginary introduction to the idea of the multiple measurements of space.