Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions – Edwin A. Abbott

Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions [Link]
Edwin A. Abbott

読書つながり、アンド、ピーター・コールセン(Peter Callesen)と
平面世界つながりでフラットランドをメモ。
こっちは課題ではなくて、自主読。
立体物が平面世界を通過したとき、
平面世界にぺったり張り付いて生きている人間からどう見えるか。
映像は、映画のトレーラー。

　> Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions is an 1884 novella
　> by Edwin A. Abbott, still popular among mathematics
　> and computer science students,
　> and considered useful reading for people studying topics
　> such as the concept of other dimensions.
　> As a piece of literature, Flatland is respected for its satire
　> on the social hierarchy of Victorian society.
　> Several films have been made from the story,
　> including two from different directors released in 2007.
　Story
　> The story posits a two dimensional world (Flatland).
　> The unnamed narrator, a humble square
　> (the social caste of gentlemen and professionals),
　> guides us through some of the implications of life in two dimensions.
　> The Square has a dream about a visit to a one-dimensional world (Lineland),
　> and attempts to convince the realm’s ignorant monarch of a second dimension,
　> but finds that it is essentially impossible
　> to make him see outside of his eternally straight line.
　> The narrator is then visited by a three-dimensional sphere,
　> which he cannot comprehend until he sees the Spaceland for himself.
　> This sphere, who remains nameless,
　> 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 of the existence of Spaceland.
　> 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.
　> Offended by this presumption and incapable of comprehending other dimensions,
　> the Sphere returns his student to Flatland in disgrace.
　> He then has a dream in which the Sphere visits him again,
　> this time to introduce him to Pointland.
　> The point (sole inhabitant, monarch, and universe in one)
　> perceives any attempt at communicating with him as simply
　> being a thought originating in his own mind. (cf. Solipsism)
　> The Square recognizes the connection between
　> the ignorance of the monarchs of Pointland and Lineland
　> with his own (and the Sphere’s) previous
　> ignorance of the existence of other dimensions.
　> Once returned to Flatland, the Square finds
　> it difficult to convince anyone of Spaceland’s existence,
　> especially after official decrees are announced – anyone
　> preaching the lies of three dimensions will be imprisoned
　> (or executed, depending on caste).
　> Eventually the Square himself is imprisoned for just this reason.
　　
参考：
The Official Movie Version of: FLATLAND [Link]
Flatland – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia [Link]
Flatland: A romance of many dimensions [Link]
フラットランドの冒険家 – フクロウと大理石 [Link]
多次元・平面国―ペチャンコ世界の住人たち – ねこら対策研究要塞日誌 [Link]
2007年10月｜CURIOSITY -アダムとイブが食べたもの- [Link]