Dimensions
153 x 234 x 29mm
First, there was Edwin A Abbott's remarkable 'Flatland', published in 1980 and one of the all-time classics of popular mathematics. Now, from Ian Stewart, comes 'Flatterland: Like Flatland, Only More So'. The book has been written with the same objectives and the same approach to explaining things as its precursor, but brought bang up-to-date, providing a dazzling, completely accessible guide to the concepts behind contemporary Mathematics.
Victoria Line (the great-granddaughter of A Square, the hero of Abbott's original) is tempted away from her home in Flatland by the Space Hopper into other spaces and dimension.
The book explains all the main areas of mathematical theory, including the enormous variety of geometries, the nature of space, time and matter and how they inform our understanding of the shape of the universe via a storyline filled with ingenious wordplay, crackling dialogue and inspirational characters: for example, Schrodinger's cat who has a healthy dislike of boxes; Moobius the one-sided cow; The Space Girls (Spotty, Curvy, Twisty, Spooky and Bendy) and the Paradox Twins, whose ages are never the same.
Vicky Line eventually makes her way home to the two-dimensional Flatland to start spreading the word . . .
