The Annotated Flatland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook The Annotated Flatland write by Ian Stewart. This book was released on 2008-07-31. The Annotated Flatland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Flatland is a unique, delightful satire that has charmed readers for over a century. Published in 1884 by the English clergyman and headmaster Edwin A. Abbott, it is the fanciful tale of A. Square, a two-dimensional being who is whisked away by a mysterious visitor to The Land of Three Dimensions, an experience that forever alters his worldview. Like the original, Ian Stewart's commentary takes readers on a strange and wonderful journey. With clarity and wit, Stewart illuminates Abbott's numerous Victorian references and touches on such diverse topics as ancient Babylon, Karl Marx, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Mt. Everest, H.G. Wells, and phrenology. The Annotated Flatland makes fascinating connections between Flatland and Abbott's era, resulting in a classic to rival Abbott's own, and a book that will inspire and delight curious readers for generations to come.
Flatterland
Flatterland - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flatterland write by Ian Stewart. This book was released on 2010-10-08. Flatterland available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. First there was Edwin A. Abbott's remarkable Flatland, published in 1884, and one of the all-time classics of popular mathematics. Now, from mathematician and accomplished science writer Ian Stewart, comes what Nature calls "a superb sequel." Through larger-than-life characters and an inspired story line, Flatterland explores our present understanding of the shape and origins of the universe, the nature of space, time, and matter, as well as modern geometries and their applications. The journey begins when our heroine, Victoria Line, comes upon her great-great-grandfather A. Square's diary, hidden in the attic. The writings help her to contact the Space Hopper, who tempts her away from her home and family in Flatland and becomes her guide and mentor through ten dimensions. In the tradition of Alice in Wonderland and The Phantom Toll Booth, this magnificent investigation into the nature of reality is destined to become a modern classic.
Why Beauty Is Truth
Why Beauty Is Truth - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Why Beauty Is Truth write by Ian Stewart. This book was released on 2008-04-29. Why Beauty Is Truth available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Physics.
Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions
Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions write by Edwin Abbott Abbott. This book was released on 2021-01-07. Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Flatland, a place of two dimensions peopled by a hierarchy of geometrical forms, is the home of narrator A. Square, who takes a tour of his bizarre homeland. This tour provides a hilarious satire on Victorian society with questions about the nature of the universe.
Naming Infinity
Naming Infinity - read free eBook in online reader or directly download on the web page. Select files or add your book in reader. Download and read online ebook Naming Infinity write by Loren Graham. This book was released on 2009-03-31. Naming Infinity available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. In 1913, Russian imperial marines stormed an Orthodox monastery at Mt. Athos, Greece, to haul off monks engaged in a dangerously heretical practice known as Name Worshipping. Exiled to remote Russian outposts, the monks and their mystical movement went underground. Ultimately, they came across Russian intellectuals who embraced Name Worshipping—and who would achieve one of the biggest mathematical breakthroughs of the twentieth century, going beyond recent French achievements. Loren Graham and Jean-Michel Kantor take us on an exciting mathematical mystery tour as they unravel a bizarre tale of political struggles, psychological crises, sexual complexities, and ethical dilemmas. At the core of this book is the contest between French and Russian mathematicians who sought new answers to one of the oldest puzzles in math: the nature of infinity. The French school chased rationalist solutions. The Russian mathematicians, notably Dmitri Egorov and Nikolai Luzin—who founded the famous Moscow School of Mathematics—were inspired by mystical insights attained during Name Worshipping. Their religious practice appears to have opened to them visions into the infinite—and led to the founding of descriptive set theory. The men and women of the leading French and Russian mathematical schools are central characters in this absorbing tale that could not be told until now. Naming Infinity is a poignant human interest story that raises provocative questions about science and religion, intuition and creativity.
