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Publisher :BoD – Books on Demand Release Date :2022-09-08 ISBN :3368240269 Pages :118 pages Rating :4.3/5 (682 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott:
Download or read book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions written by Edwin Abbott and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2022-09-08 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Reproduction of the original.
Publisher :Springer Science & Business Media Release Date :2010-04-10 ISBN :9789048132096 Pages :390 pages Rating :4.1/5 (32 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning by Leonie Sandercock:
Download or read book Multimedia Explorations in Urban Policy and Planning written by Leonie Sandercock and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2010-04-10 with total page 390 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The book is a collection of essays exploring the potential of multimedia to enrich and transform the planning field. By multimedia the authors refer to a broad range of new information and communication technologies (from film and video to digital ethnography and the internet), which are opening up new possibilities in planning practices, processes, pedagogy and research. The authors document the ways in which these ICTs can expand the language of planning and the creativity of planners; can evoke the lived experience (the spirit, memories, desires) of our 21st century mongrel cities by engaging with stories and storytelling; and can democratise planning practices. The text is epistemologically radical, in presenting an argument for the importance of "multiple languages" (ways of knowing) in the planning field, and making the connection between this epistemology and the almost infinite potential of Multimedia to provide varied tools to accomplish this transformation, displacing the supremacy of the rational, linear and hierarchical with more open, playful and imaginative approaches. Each of the authors brings practical experience with different forms of Multimedia use and reflects on the different potentialities offered by Multimedia for critical intervention in urban and regional issues, and the power dynamics embedded in such interventions.
Publisher :Peter Lang Release Date :2010 ISBN :9783039118359 Pages :264 pages Rating :4.1/5 (183 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review The Eloquence of Ghosts by Florian Mussgnug:
Download or read book The Eloquence of Ghosts written by Florian Mussgnug and published by Peter Lang. This book was released on 2010 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Giorgio Manganelli (1922-1990), one of Italy's most radical and original writers, went further than most in exploring the creative possibilities of hybrid genres and open forms. Ostentation, theatricality, and a love of drapery and verbal excess are defining features of his body of work, which ranges from prose fiction, literary criticism, and drama to travel writing, treatises, commentaries, and imaginary interviews. This study examines the wealth of Manganelli's imagination - his grotesque animals, speaking corpses, and melancholy spectres - and argues that his spectacular eloquence was shaped by an exceptional awareness of literary and philosophical models. Following Manganelli's lead, the author addresses issues such as the boundaries of meaningful language, the relationship between literary and visual texts, fantasy and realism, and the power of literature to express the apprehensions and intimations of human consciousness.
Publisher :Youcanprint Release Date :2018-07-28 ISBN :8827841512 Pages : pages Rating :4.8/5 (278 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) by Edwin Abbott Abbott:
Download or read book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated) written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by Youcanprint. This book was released on 2018-07-28 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Illustrated version of "Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions" by Edwin Abbott Abbott. This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), it describes the journeys of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status. Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms, Square has adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions) and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions—a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is not only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space.
Publisher :Garrett County Press Release Date :2011-11-02 ISBN :189105354X Pages :90 pages Rating :4.8/5 (91 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott:
Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin A. Abbott and published by Garrett County Press. This book was released on 2011-11-02 with total page 90 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: One of the greatest science fiction books ever written; Flatland is now available with new illustrations from brilliant illustrator Kevin Stone. Follow the Flatland narrator as he discovers new lands, people and dimensions in a witty and inspiring fantasy. Not only an insightful introduction to the fourth dimension or a biting satire of Victorian England, Flatland is an unforgettable reminder of how imagination can transcend material reality, politics and ignorance.
Publisher :BoD – Books on Demand Release Date :2018-10-24 ISBN :3748149964 Pages :114 pages Rating :4.7/5 (481 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Illustrated by Edwin A. Abbot:
Download or read book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Illustrated written by Edwin A. Abbot and published by BoD – Books on Demand. This book was released on 2018-10-24 with total page 114 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows-only hard and with luminous edges-and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said "my universe": but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things. In such a country, you will perceive at once that it is impossible that there should be anything of what you call a "solid" kind; but I dare say you will suppose that we could at least distinguish by sight the Triangles, Squares, and other figures, moving about as I have described them. On the contrary, we could see nothing of the kind, not at least so as to distinguish one figure from another. Nothing was visible, nor could be visible, to us, except Straight Lines; and the necessity of this I will speedily demonstrate. Place a penny on the middle of one of your tables in Space; and leaning over it, look down upon it. It will appear a circle. But now, drawing back to the edge of the table, gradually lower your eye (thus bringing yourself more and more into the condition of the inhabitants of Flatland), and you will find the penny becoming more and more oval to your view, and at last when you have placed your eye exactly on the edge of the table (so that you are, as it were, actually a Flatlander) the penny will then have ceased to appear oval at all, and will have become, so far as you can see, a straight line.
Publisher :Princeton University Press Release Date :2009-01-21 ISBN :1400829666 Pages :185 pages Rating :4.4/5 (8 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott:
Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2009-01-21 with total page 185 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Edwin Abbott's beloved mathematical adventure novel Flatland (1884) is being introduced to a whole new generation of readers and viewers through Flatland: The Movie, a dramatic computer-animated adaptation starring Martin Sheen, Kristen Bell, Michael York, Tony Hale, and Joe Estevez. This book is the companion to the movie--and the ultimate edition of the classic book on which it is based. A beautiful, large-format volume, Flatland: The Movie Edition includes: the full text of the original novel; the screenplay of the movie; essays on the making of the movie by the writers and filmmakers--producer Seth Caplan, director Jeffrey Travis, and director and animator Dano Johnson; color illustrations; and a new introduction by Thomas Banchoff, a Brown University mathematician and Flatland authority who served as an advisor to the filmmakers. By describing the challenges the filmmakers faced in updating a Victorian mathematical allegory for a new generation and transforming it into a compelling animated story, Flatland: The Movie Edition makes watching the movie and reading Abbott's book even more illuminating and enjoyable. You'll never think about the multiple dimensions of space in the same way again.
Publisher :BEYOND BOOKS HUB Release Date :2021-01-01 ISBN : Pages :103 pages Rating :4./5 ( users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbot:
Download or read book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions written by Edwin A. Abbot and published by BEYOND BOOKS HUB. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 103 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London. Written pseudonymously by “A Square”, the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.
Publisher :Princeton University Press Release Date :2015-03-22 ISBN :1400866642 Pages :101 pages Rating :4.4/5 (8 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Flatland by Edwin Abbott Abbott:
Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2015-03-22 with total page 101 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: In 1884, Edwin Abbott Abbott wrote a mathematical adventure set in a two-dimensional plane world, populated by a hierarchical society of regular geometrical figures-who think and speak and have all too human emotions. Since then Flatland has fascinated generations of readers, becoming a perennial science-fiction favorite. By imagining the contact of beings from different dimensions, the author fully exploited the power of the analogy between the limitations of humans and those of his two-dimensional characters. A first-rate fictional guide to the concept of multiple dimensions of space, the book will also appeal to those who are interested in computer graphics. This field, which literally makes higher dimensions seeable, has aroused a new interest in visualization. We can now manipulate objects in four dimensions and observe their three-dimensional slices tumbling on the computer screen. But how do we interpret these images? In his introduction, Thomas Banchoff points out that there is no better way to begin exploring the problem of understanding higher-dimensional slicing phenomena than reading this classic novel of the Victorian era.
Publisher :Prabhat Prakashan Release Date :2021-01-01 ISBN : Pages :93 pages Rating :4./5 ( users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott:
Download or read book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by Prabhat Prakashan. This book was released on 2021-01-01 with total page 93 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions' is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott. It was first published in 1884. The book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions.
Publisher :University of Toronto Press Release Date :2010-01-01 ISBN :080209998X Pages :329 pages Rating :4.8/5 (2 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Neoavanguardia' by Mario Moroni:
Download or read book Neoavanguardia' written by Mario Moroni and published by University of Toronto Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 329 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: The Italian neoavanguardia, a literary and artistic movement characterized by a strong push towards experimentation, playfulness, and new forms of language usage, was founded at the beginning of the 1960s by a group of poets, critics, artists, and composers. Although the neoavanguardia movement has been primarily defined and examined in a literary context, it is broadly discussed in this collection as also affecting other artistic forms such as the visual arts, music, and architecture. In examining this often controversial movement, Neoavanguardia's contributors include topics such as critical-theoretical debates, the crisis of literature as defined within the movement, and issues of gender in 1960s Italian art and literature. This important collection interrogates the arts as creative codes, their ability to question reality, and their capacity to survive. In so doing, it paves the way for future interdisciplinary investigations of this complex cultural formation.
Publisher :Library of Alexandria Release Date :1926 ISBN :1465523243 Pages :102 pages Rating :4.4/5 (655 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Flatland by David Phelps Abbott:
Download or read book Flatland written by David Phelps Abbott and published by Library of Alexandria. This book was released on 1926 with total page 102 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: I call our world Flatland, not because we call it so, but to make its nature clearer to you, my happy readers, who are privileged to live in Space. Imagine a vast sheet of paper on which straight Lines, Triangles, Squares, Pentagons, Hexagons, and other figures, instead of remaining fixed in their places, move freely about, on or in the surface, but without the power of rising above or sinking below it, very much like shadows—only hard and with luminous edges—and you will then have a pretty correct notion of my country and countrymen. Alas, a few years ago, I should have said “my universe”: but now my mind has been opened to higher views of things. In such a country, you will perceive at once that it is impossible that there should be anything of what you call a “solid” kind; but I dare say you will suppose that we could at least distinguish by sight the Triangles Squares and other figures moving about as I have described them. On the contrary, we could see nothing of the kind, not at least so as to distinguish one figure from another. Nothing was visible, nor could be visible, to us, except straight Lines; and the necessity of this I will speedily demonstrate. Place a penny on the middle of one of your tables in Space; and leaning over it, look down upon it. It will appear a circle. But now, drawing back to the edge of the table, gradually lower your eye (thus bringing yourself more and more into the condition of the inhabitants of Flatland), and you will find the penny becoming more and more oval to your view; and at last when you have placed your eye exactly on the edge of the table (so that you are, as it were, actually a Flatland citizen) the penny will then have ceased to appear oval at all, and will have become, so far as you can see, a straight line. The same thing would happen if you were to treat in the same way a Triangle, or Square, or any other figure cut out of pasteboard. As soon as you look at it with your eye on the edge of the table, you will find that it ceases to appear to you a figure, and that it becomes in appearance a straight line. Take for example an equilateral Triangle—who represents with us a Tradesman of the respectable class. Fig. 1 represents the Tradesman as you would see him while you were bending over him from above; figs. 2 and 3 represent the Tradesman, as you would see him if your eye were close to the level, or all but on the level of the table; and if your eye were quite on the level of the table (and that is how we see him in Flatland) you would see nothing but a straight line.
Publisher :Penguin Release Date :1998-06-01 ISBN :1101212942 Pages :144 pages Rating :4.1/5 (12 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott:
Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin A. Abbott and published by Penguin. This book was released on 1998-06-01 with total page 144 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: A “romance in many dimensions” that has fascinated generations of readers with its clever blend of social satire and mathematical theory A Penguin Classic A work that continues to pose provocative questions about perception and reality, Flatland is a brilliant parody of Victorian society where all existence is limited to length and breadth—its inhabitants unable even to imagine a third dimension. The amiable narrator, A Square, provides an overview of this fantastic world—its physics and metaphysics, its history, customs and religious beliefs. But when a strange visitor mysteriously appears and transports the incredulous Flatlander to the Land of Three Dimensions, his world view is forever shattered. Written more than a century ago, Flatland conceals within its brilliant parody of Victorian society speculations about the universe that resonate in Einstein’s theory of relativity as well as the current “string-theory” of nature. For more than seventy years, Penguin has been the leading publisher of classic literature in the English-speaking world. With more than 1,700 titles, Penguin Classics represents a global bookshelf of the best works throughout history and across genres and disciplines. Readers trust the series to provide authoritative texts enhanced by introductions and notes by distinguished scholars and contemporary authors, as well as up-to-date translations by award-winning translators.
Publisher :e-artnow Release Date :2018-05-11 ISBN :8026893379 Pages :113 pages Rating :4.0/5 (268 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated Edition) by Edwin A. Abbott:
Download or read book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (Illustrated Edition) written by Edwin A. Abbott and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-05-11 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novel. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. 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. Flatland has often been categorized as science fiction although it could more precisely be called "mathematical fiction". With the advent of modern science fiction from the 1950s to the present day, Flatland has seen a revival in popularity, especially among science fiction and cyberpunk fans. Many works have been inspired by the novella, including novel sequels and short films.
Publisher :BoD - Books on Demand Release Date :2021-09-10 ISBN :232239453X Pages :173 pages Rating :4.3/5 (223 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A. Abbott:
Download or read book Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions written by Edwin A. Abbott and published by BoD - Books on Demand. This book was released on 2021-09-10 with total page 173 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: This masterpiece of science (and mathematical) fiction is a delightfully unique and highly entertaining satire that has charmed readers for more than 100 years. The work of English clergyman, educator and Shakespearean scholar Edwin A. Abbott (1838-1926), it describes the journeys of A. Square, a mathematician and resident of the two-dimensional Flatland, where women-thin, straight lines-are the lowliest of shapes, and where men may have any number of sides, depending on their social status. Through strange occurrences that bring him into contact with a host of geometric forms, Square has adventures in Spaceland (three dimensions), Lineland (one dimension) and Pointland (no dimensions) and ultimately entertains thoughts of visiting a land of four dimensions - a revolutionary idea for which he is returned to his two-dimensional world. Charmingly illustrated by the author, Flatland is not only fascinating reading, it is still a first-rate fictional introduction to the concept of the multiple dimensions of space. "Instructive, entertaining, and stimulating to the imagination." - Mathematics Teacher.
Publisher :e-artnow Release Date :2018-11-02 ISBN :8027244749 Pages :113 pages Rating :4.0/5 (272 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review FLATLAND (Illustrated) by Edwin A. Abbott:
Download or read book FLATLAND (Illustrated) written by Edwin A. Abbott and published by e-artnow. This book was released on 2018-11-02 with total page 113 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: This eBook edition of "Flatland" has been formatted to the highest digital standards and adjusted for readability on all devices. Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novel. Written pseudonymously by "A Square", the book used the fictional two-dimensional world of Flatland to comment on the hierarchy of Victorian culture, but the novella's more enduring contribution is its examination of dimensions. 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. Flatland has often been categorized as science fiction although it could more precisely be called "mathematical fiction". With the advent of modern science fiction from the 1950s to the present day, Flatland has seen a revival in popularity, especially among science fiction and cyberpunk fans. Many works have been inspired by the novella, including novel sequels and short films.
Publisher :Independently Published Release Date :2021-06-05 ISBN : Pages :124 pages Rating :4.5/5 (155 users) GO BOOK!
Summary Book Review Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions(classics Illustrated) by Edwin A Abbott:
Download or read book Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions(classics Illustrated) written by Edwin A Abbott and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-06-05 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book Synopsis: Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is a satirical novella by the English schoolmaster Edwin Abbott Abbott, first published in 1884 by Seeley & Co. of London.
