Flatland Summary

Nicole Akukoro
Nguyen
PAP Geometry, per. A2
28 April 2016
Flatland Report
In the book written by Edwin Abbott titled, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, Abbott creates a fictional, two-dimensional world, which he calls Flatland, that is inhabited by two-dimensional beings described as polygons. Abbott sets the scene in the first part of the book, titled “This World”, by describing the society, physical environment, and the various ways that the Flatlanders interpret and understand their surroundings. His fictional creation has many concepts that are parallel to those of Earth, including the four cardinal directions, the concept of gravity, and the presence of light.
Flatland also has a “caste system” similar to the ones in different
In Lineland, A. Square meets the king who explains everything there is to know about Lineland to a confused two-dimensional figure. For example, men are represented as lines that vary in thickness and length with the king having the longest length in this world. Women are represented as points that can be destroyed with one touch from a line. At the same time, the narrator tries to explain to the confused king what it would be like to move more in ways than just northward and southward in a two-dimensional world, but this is a difficult concept to grasp for someone who has never experienced such a
He was a school mast, a theologian, and the well known author of the book Flatland written in 1884. He first attended the City of London School and then later entered St. John’s College in Cambridge in 1857 where he was awarded for many subjects such as mathematics and theology. After gaining his Mastership at King Edward's School, Birmingham, and Clifton College, Abbott became the headmaster of the City of London School in 1865 at the age of twenty-six. Because he loved writing, he retired to devote more time to his literary works after twenty-four years. Being a scholar, he wrote and published a variety of works including Shakespearean Grammar in 1870, Bacon and Essex in 1877, and his most famous work, Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions in 1884. In 1926, Edwin Abbott died of influenza in Hampstead, England and was buried in Hampstead Cemetery. The book was very easy to read and follow while Abbott did occasionally speak in ways that were different from the way people speak today, the phrases were easy to break down and understand. The concepts that were talked about, for example, the various dimensions in the world and what types of math forms they consist of, were described in a simple, easy-to-understand