CHAPTER 9
Flatland
Suffice it that I am the completion of your incomplete self. You are a Line, but I am a Line of Lines, called in my country a Square: and even I, infinitely superior though I am to you, am of little account among the great nobles of Flatland, whence I have come to visit you, in the hope of enlightening your ignorance.
Edwin A. AbbottFlatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions (1884)
THE title of this chapter is a reference to the highly-recommended book of the same name written by Edwin A. Abbott in 1884 [1]. In it, the narrator, a square who lives in the two-dimensional world of Flatland, discovers and grapples with comprehending the three-dimensional world of Spaceland, while simultaneously recognizing the profound advantages ...
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