Letar du efter en riktigt gammal roman där människorna är geometriska figurer

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För en tid sedan läste jag om en riktigt gammal science fiction roman / novella (kunde ha varit mer än ett sekel gammal) där det inte fanns exakt människor, men geometriska figurer i en 2-D värld.

Jag tror att huvudpersonen (och kanske berättaren) var en fyrkant och han besöker en dimensionsvärlden. Senare besöks hans värld av en 3D geometrisk figur som tar honom till den tredimensionella världen. Poängen var att det finns fler dimensioner än vad 2D-världsfigurerna visste.

Det är allt jag kan minnas just nu. Vet någon titeln på denna roman?

    
uppsättning Shevliaskovic 10.02.2015 09:53

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Jag antar att det här skulle vara " Flatland: En romantik med många dimensioner " (skrivet 1884 under pseudonymen "A .Square ", riktigt namn Edwin Abbott Abbott).

Plot sammanfattning från wikipedia:

The story describes a two-dimensional world occupied by geometric figures, whereof women are simple line-segments, while men are polygons with various numbers of sides. The narrator is a square, a member of the caste of gentlemen and professionals, who guides the readers through some of the implications of life in two dimensions. The Square dreams about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland) inhabited by "lustrous points", and attempts to convince the realm's monarch of a second dimension; but is unable to do so. He is himself visited by a three-dimensional sphere, which he cannot comprehend until he sees Spaceland (a tridimensional world) for himself. This Sphere visits Flatland at the turn of each millennium to introduce a new apostle to the idea of a third dimension in the hopes of eventually educating the population of Flatland. From the safety of Spaceland, they are able to observe the leaders of Flatland secretly acknowledging the existence of the sphere and prescribing the silencing of anyone found preaching the truth of Spaceland and the third dimension. After this proclamation is made, many witnesses are massacred or imprisoned (according to caste).

After the Square's mind is opened to new dimensions, he tries to convince the Sphere of the theoretical possibility of the existence of a fourth (and fifth, and sixth ...) spatial dimension; but the Sphere returns his student to Flatland in disgrace.

Du kan ladda ner hela boken gratis här på Project Gutenberg .

    
svaret ges 10.02.2015 09:58