![]() ![]() To guide students through the various dimensions, the team takes Arthur Square carefully through Pointland, Lineland, and Spaceland, explaining with terrific visuals just how each dimension is formed. ![]() Women are no longer the lesser of the sexes (they are polygons just like the men one woman even serves as a boss), and the main character, now named Arthur Square, is given a granddaughter (appropriately named “Hex”). To make that happen, they must take a little artistic license. In their adaptation of the book, the creative team behind Flatland: The Movie has the difficult job of condensing all this material into a half-hour production aimed at children. Throughout the book, the reader is well aware of the first, second, and third dimensions, but Abbott’s aim is to open our minds to the possibility of a fourth (and higher) dimension-how these dimensions could exist and how we could possibly conceive of them. ![]() Later, Square is visited by a sphere who attempts to introduce him to the world of three dimensions. The second half of the book focuses on Square’s journey (in a dream) to Lineland, a world of only one dimension, and the square’s futile attempt to explain to the residents of Lineland his world of two dimensions. ![]()
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