Aspiring to a Higher Plane: A Mathematical Fiction in 1884
In 1884 Edwin Abbott Abbott published Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, perhaps the first ever book that could be described as “mathematical fiction”. Ian Stewart, author of Flatterland and The Annotated Flatland, introduces the strange tale of the geometric adventures of A. Square. This article, Aspiring to a Higher Plane: A Mathematical Fiction in 1884, was originally published[…]