Download or read book Flatterland written by Ian Stewart and published by ReadHowYouWant.com. This book was released on 2010-10-08 with total page 466 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Flatland A Romance of Many Dimensions written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2021-01-07 with total page 62 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.
Download or read book Flatland a Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin Abbott Abbott Annotated Edition written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2020-11-04 with total page 118 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: EDWIN ABBOTT ABBOTT (20 DECEMBER 1838 - 12 OCTOBER 1926) WAS AN ENGLISH SCHOOLMASTER, THEOLOGIAN, AND ANGLICAN PRIEST, BEST KNOWN AS THE AUTHOR OF THE NOVELLA FLATLAND (1884).EDWIN ABBOTT ABBOTT WAS THE ELDEST SON OF EDWIN ABBOTT (1808-1882), HEADMASTER OF THE PHILOLOGICAL SCHOOL, MARYLEBONE, AND HIS WIFE, JANE ABBOTT (1806-1882). HIS PARENTS WERE FIRST COUSINS.HE WAS EDUCATED AT THE CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL AND AT ST JOHN'S COLLEGE, CAMBRIDGE, WHERE HE TOOK THE HIGHEST HONORS OF HIS CLASS IN CLASSICS, MATHEMATICS AND THEOLOGY, AND BECAME A FELLOW OF HIS COLLEGE. IN PARTICULAR, HE WAS 1ST SMITH'S PRIZEMAN IN 1861. IN 1862 HE TOOK ORDERS. AFTER HOLDING MASTERSHIPS AT KING EDWARD'S SCHOOL, BIRMINGHAM, HE SUCCEEDED G. F. MORTIMER AS HEADMASTER OF THE CITY OF LONDON SCHOOL IN 1865, AT THE EARLY AGE OF 26. THERE, HE OVERSAW THE EDUCATION OF FUTURE PRIME MINISTER H. H. ASQUITH. ABBOTT WAS HULSEAN LECTURER IN 1876.HE RETIRED IN 1889, AND DEVOTED HIMSELF TO LITERARY AND THEOLOGICAL PURSUITS. ABBOTT'S LIBERAL INCLINATIONS IN THEOLOGY WERE PROMINENT BOTH IN HIS EDUCATIONAL VIEWS AND IN HIS BOOKS. HIS SHAKESPEARIAN GRAMMAR (1870) IS A PERMANENT CONTRIBUTION TO ENGLISH PHILOLOGY. IN 1885, HE PUBLISHED A LIFE OF FRANCIS BACON. HIS THEOLOGICAL WRITINGS INCLUDE THREE ANONYMOUSLY PUBLISHED RELIGIOUS ROMANCES - PHILOCHRISTUS (1878), WHERE HE TRIED TO RAISE INTEREST IN GOSPELS READING, ONESIMUS (1882), AND SILANUS THE CHRISTIAN (1908).ABBOTT ALSO WROTE EDUCATIONAL TEXT BOOKS, ONE BEING "VIA LATINA: FIRST LATIN BOOK" WHICH WAS PUBLISHED IN 1898 AND DISTRIBUTED AROUND THE WORLD WITHIN THE EDUCATION SYSTEM.ABBOTT'S BEST-KNOWN WORK IS HIS 1884 NOVELLA FLATLAND: A ROMANCE OF MANY DIMENSIONS WHICH DESCRIBES A TWO-DIMENSIONAL WORLD AND EXPLORES THE NATURE OF DIMENSIONS. IT 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.
Download or read book Sphereland written by Dionys Burger and published by . This book was released on 1983 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Against the Day written by Thomas Pynchon and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2012-06-13 with total page 1541 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “[Pynchon's] funniest and arguably his most accessible novel.” —The New York Times Book Review “Raunchy, funny, digressive, brilliant.” —USA Today “Rich and sweeping, wild and thrilling.” —The Boston Globe Spanning the era between the Chicago World's Fair of 1893 and the years just after World War I, and constantly moving between locations across the globe (and to a few places not strictly speaking on the map at all), Against the Day unfolds with a phantasmagoria of characters that includes anarchists, balloonists, drug enthusiasts, mathematicians, mad scientists, shamans, spies, and hired guns. As an era of uncertainty comes crashing down around their ears and an unpredictable future commences, these folks are mostly just trying to pursue their lives. Sometimes they manage to catch up; sometimes it's their lives that pursue them.
Download or read book How to Write Clearly written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 1880 with total page 108 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Hollywood Flatlands written by Esther Leslie and published by Verso. This book was released on 2004-06-17 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Brings to light the links between animation, avant-garde art and modernist criticism.
Download or read book Spaceland written by Rudy Rucker and published by Macmillan + ORM. This book was released on 2003-07-04 with total page 313 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Joe Cube is a Silicon Valley hotshot--well, a would-be hotshot anyway--hoping that the 3-D TV project he's managing will lead to the big money IPO he's always dreamed of. On New Year's Eve, hoping to impress his wife, he sneaks home the prototype. It brings no new warmth to their cooling relationship, but it does attract someone else's attention. When Joe sees a set of lips talking to him (floating in midair) and feels the poke of a disembodied finger (inside him), it's not because of the champagne he's drunk. He has just met Momo, a woman from the All, a world of four spatial dimensions for whom our narrow world, which she calls Spaceland, is something like a rug, but one filled with motion and life. Momo has a business proposition for Joe, an offer she won't let him refuse. The upside potential becomes much clearer to him once she helps him grow a new eye (on a stalk) that can see in the fourth-dimensional directions, and he agrees. After that it's a wild ride through a million-dollar night in Las Vegas, a budding addiction to tasty purple 4-D food, a failing marriage, eye-popping excursions into the All, and encounters with Momo's foes, rubbery red critters who steal money, offer sage advice and sometimes messily explode. Joe is having the time of his life, until Momo's scheme turns out to have angles he couldn't have imagined. Suddenly the fate of all life here in Spaceland is at stake. Rudy Rucker is a past master at turning mathematical concepts into rollicking science fiction adventure, from Spacetime Donuts and White Light to The Hacker and the Ants. In the tradition of Edwin A. Abbott's classic novel, Flatland, Rucker gives us a tour of higher mathematics and visionary realities. Spaceland is Flatland on hyperdrive! At the Publisher's request, this title is being sold without Digital Rights Management Software (DRM) applied.
Download or read book Astrobiology Discovery and Societal Impact written by Steven J. Dick and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2018-05-03 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Examines humanistic aspects of astrobiology, exploring approaches, critical issues, and implications of the discovery of extraterrestrial life.
Download or read book The Pot Thief Who Studied Edward Abbey written by J. Michael Orenduff and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2018-05-22 with total page 297 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The pot thief is going back to school, but someone on campus is trying for a different kind of degree—murder in the first—in this “smartly funny series” (Anne Hillerman). Before making a somewhat notorious name for himself as a salvager of antiquated pottery and other desert artifacts, Hubie Schuze was an eager student at the University of New Mexico—right up until they booted him out. Now, he’s back at UNM as a pottery teacher. It should be a breeze, but campus life has changed dramatically in the past twenty-five years. From cell phones to trigger warnings to sensitivity workshops, Hubie has to get up to speed fast or risk losing control of his class. But his dismay at the state of modern academia takes a back seat when a young beauty working as a life model is murdered—and Hubie becomes a suspect. Taking the investigation into his own hands, he soon uncovers a wide palette of sketchy suspects that includes both the self-involved student body and the quarrelsome art school faculty. But what he doesn’t know is that the murderer has a new artistic project in the works: a headstone for the grave of Hubie Schuze . . . The Pot Thief Who Studied Edward Abbey is the 8th book in the Pot Thief Mysteries, but you may enjoy reading the series in any order.
Download or read book Flatland written by Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Fourth Dimension written by Rudy von Bitter Rucker and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 1985 with total page 244 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A detailed description of what the fourth dimension would be like.
Download or read book Phenomenology in Practice and Theory written by William S. Hamrick and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 1985-06-30 with total page 290 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: by Wolfe Mays It is a great pleasure and honour to write this preface. I first became ac quainted with Herbert Spiegelberg's work some twenty years ago, when in 1960 I reviewed The Phenomenological Movement! for Philosophical Books, one of the few journals in Britain that reviewed this book, which Herbert has jok ingly referred to as "the monster". I was at that time already interested in Con tinental thought, and in particular phenomenology. I had attended a course on phenomenology given by Rene Schaerer at Geneva when I was working there in 1955-6. I had also been partly instrumental in getting Merleau-Ponty to come to Manchester in 1958. During his visit he gave a seminar in English on politics and a lecture in French on "Wittgenstein and Language" in which he attacked Wittgenstein's views on language in the Tractatus. He was apparently unaware of the Philosophical Investigations. But it was not until I came to review Herbert's book that I appreciated the ramifications of the movement: its diverse strands of thought, and the manifold personalities involved in it. For example, Herbert mentions one Aurel Kolnai who had written on the "Phenomenology of Disgust'!, and which had appeared in Vol. 10 of Husserl's Jahrbuch. It was only after I had been acquainted for some time with Kolnai then in England, that I realised that 2 Herbert had written about him in the Movement. The Movement itself contains a wealth of learning.
Download or read book The Well of Lost Plots written by Jasper Fforde and published by Penguin. This book was released on 2004-08-03 with total page 406 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The third novel in the New York Times bestselling Thursday Next series is “great fun—especially for those with a literary turn of mind and a taste for offbeat comedy” (The Washington Post Book World). “Delightful . . . the well of Fforde’s imagination is bottomless.”—People “Fforde creates a literary reality that is somewhere amid a triangulation of Douglas Adams, Monty Python, and Miss Marple.”—The Denver Post With the 923rd Annual Bookworld Awards just around the corner and an unknown villain wreaking havoc in Jurisfiction, what could possibly be next for Detective Thursday Next? Protecting the world’s greatest literature—not to mention keeping up with Miss Havisham—is tiring work for an expectant mother. And Thursday can definitely use a respite. So what better hideaway than inside the unread and unreadable Caversham Heights, a cliché-ridden pulp mystery in the hidden depths of the Well of Lost Plots, where all unpublished books reside? But peace and quiet remain elusive for Thursday, who soon discovers that the Well itself is a veritable linguistic free-for-all, where grammasites run rampant, plot devices are hawked on the black market, and lousy books—like Caversham Heights—are scrapped for salvage. To top it off, a murderer is stalking Jurisfiction personnel and nobody is safe—least of all Thursday. Don’t miss any of Jasper Fforde’s delightfully entertaining Thursday Next novels: THE EYRE AFFAIR • LOST IN A GOOD BOOK • THE WELL OF LOST PLOTS • SOMETHING ROTTEN • FIRST AMONG SEQUELS • ONE OF OUR THURSDAYS IS MISSING • THE WOMAN WHO DIED A LOT
Download or read book Flatland a Romance of Many Dimensions by Edwin A Abbott Annotated Edition written by Edwin Abbott Edwin Abbott Abbott and published by . This book was released on 2021-12-23 with total page 131 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Edwin A. Abbott's hallucinatory tale has captivated readers for more than a hundred years-including contemporary scientists such as Carl Sagan and Stephen Hawking. This mind-expanding satire describes a two-dimensional world organized by strict caste system of geometrical forms. The narrator, A. Square, introduces us to the features of Flatland before recounting his revelatory explorations of Lineland, a one-dimensional world, and Pointland, a world of no dimensions, and the hitherto inconceivable three-dimensional world of Spaceland, through which he is ushered by his Virgil-like guide, Sphere. In Flatland, Square is regarded as a heretic and imprisoned for his belief in the existence of a third, and possibly even a fourth, dimension. Although Flatland did not achieve popular success on its publication in 1884, it gained a broad audience after the publication of Albert Einstein's general theory of relativity, which focused attention on the concept of a fourth dimension. The book enjoyed another renaissance with the advent of modern science fiction in the late 1930s and is now widely acknowledged as a pioneering work of mathematical fiction. Includes the author's original drawings and an short biography
Download or read book Black Victim To Black Victor written by Adam B Coleman and published by Independently Published. This book was released on 2021-03-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Black Americans are constantly lied to about the source of their community's issues in an effort to profit off their pain and to make sure that they never leave the mindset of the victim. In order to move forward in American society, black people must be critical of all sectors of black culture and the people that profit off the mainstream black victim messaging. I believe that with honesty, love, ownership and responsibility, black Americans can leave behind the victim mentality for the truly empowering victor mindset. Once victor-hood is embraced, we can achieve a more peaceful union with the rest of American society and stop accepting conflict within the black community as a normality.
Download or read book The Outer Limits of Reason written by Noson S. Yanofsky and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2016-11-04 with total page 419 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This exploration of the scientific limits of knowledge challenges our deep-seated beliefs about our universe, our rationality, and ourselves. “A must-read for anyone studying information science.” —Publishers Weekly, starred review Many books explain what is known about the universe. This book investigates what cannot be known. Rather than exploring the amazing facts that science, mathematics, and reason have revealed to us, this work studies what science, mathematics, and reason tell us cannot be revealed. In The Outer Limits of Reason, Noson Yanofsky considers what cannot be predicted, described, or known, and what will never be understood. He discusses the limitations of computers, physics, logic, and our own intuitions about the world—including our ideas about space, time, and motion, and the complex relationship between the knower and the known. Yanofsky describes simple tasks that would take computers trillions of centuries to complete and other problems that computers can never solve: • perfectly formed English sentences that make no sense • different levels of infinity • the bizarre world of the quantum • the relevance of relativity theory • the causes of chaos theory • math problems that cannot be solved by normal means • statements that are true but cannot be proven Moving from the concrete to the abstract, from problems of everyday language to straightforward philosophical questions to the formalities of physics and mathematics, Yanofsky demonstrates a myriad of unsolvable problems and paradoxes. Exploring the various limitations of our knowledge, he shows that many of these limitations have a similar pattern and that by investigating these patterns, we can better understand the structure and limitations of reason itself. Yanofsky even attempts to look beyond the borders of reason to see what, if anything, is out there.
