Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott

Have you ever read escaping flatland?

So it's a book from the 1800s and it is about a sphere that goes to visit a two-dimensional world of flatland. So in the two-dimensional world you have different shapes and the shapes didn't know to the class. Well, this is Abbott's book Flatland. Yes. Is this beyond that? No, but it's also referred to as escaping Flatland.

So Abbott talks about what he calls Flatland, which is a two-dimensional surface.

He was a mathematician and circles and lines and polygons move around on this two-dimensional space.

He criticizes Victorian values, especially with regard to women. Women are just lines.

The polygons that have more sides are above, superior to triangles for example. The ideal is a circle.

He's taken to the third dimension. One of these creature characters in 2D. Yeah, he's a creature in 2D but a third-dimensional entity comes and takes him up and shows him what the third dimension looks like and he goes back and he kind of proselytizes for the existence of this.

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There was a book written about this. I forget. Late 1800s, it was called Flatland by Edwin Abbott.

In fact, I've just been recently been asked to write a guest forward to a new edition of sort of a new printing of that book.

It's still in print and it explores what this community of shapes do when one of them pops out of their world and sees three dimensions.

So Abbott talks about what he calls Flatland, which is a two-dimensional surface. He was a mathematician.

He criticizes Victorian values, especially with regard to women. Women are just lines.

The polygons that have more sides are above, superior to triangles for example. The ideal is a circle.

He's taken to the third dimension. One of these creature characters in 2D. Yeah, he's a creature in 2D but a third-dimensional entity comes and takes him up and shows him what the third dimension looks like and he goes back and he kind of proselytizes for the existence of this.

They get angry because they can't conceive of it and they think he's some sort of quack or whatever.

There was a book written about this. I forget. Late 1800s, it was called Flatland by Edwin Abbott.

It's still in print and it explores what this community of shapes do when one of them pops out of their world and sees three dimensions.