By Ian Stewart
Like the unique, Ian Stewart's statement takes readers on an odd and beautiful trip. With readability and wit, Stewart illuminates Abbott's various Victorian references and touches on such various themes as old Babylon, Karl Marx, Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, Mt. Everest, H.G. Wells, and phrenology. The Annotated Flatland makes interesting connections among Flatland and Abbott's period, leading to a vintage to rival Abbott's personal, and a e-book that may motivate and enjoyment curious readers for generations to come.
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But the past history and the high reputation of the school preclude me from thus trespassing upon tolerance. One who is content to be tolerated is probably not fit to be the Headmaster of any school, and certainly not of that which bears the name of the City of London. qxd 4/25/08 10:59 AM Page 22 F L AT L A N D Figure 7 Abbott’s letter of resignation. 22 T H E A N N OTAT ED FL AT L A ND consequently he ought (it is argued) to acknowledge that his countrymen are not only long and broad, but also (though doubtless in a very slight degree) thick or high.
This equation is fundamental to nuclear power and the atomic bomb, although Einstein himself was a pacifist. According to the General Theory of Relativity, gravity is a result of the curvature of space-time. One spectacular consequence of general relativity is the existence of black holes — regions of space-time from which nothing, not even light, can escape. It is now believed that most galaxies have giant “supermassive” black holes at their cores. ” Until the mid-twentieth century, this was the principal — and without doubt the best-known — 14 T H E A N N OTAT ED FL AT L A ND application of multidimensional geometry.
Thus we use all of our experience with interpreting two-dimensional images of three-dimensional objects to help us move up one further step to interpret the three-dimensional representations of objects which require a fourth coordinate for their effective description. qxd 4/25/08 10:59 AM Page 20 world line time space Figure 6 Minkowski’s geometry of relativistic spacetime. Here space is schematically represented as being one-dimensional. In 1908 Minkowksi applied Descartes’s idea to physics, introducing a geometric image for spacetime in which time t is explicitly represented as an extra coordinate axis.