Edwin Abbott Abbott

Edwin Abbott Abbott is best known for Flatland: A Romance of Many Dimensions, a playful but serious novel that uses geometry to explore perception, class, and the limits of human understanding. He was also a writer on language and education, as seen in How to Write Clearly. Edwin Abbott Abbott remains a favorite for readers who enjoy clever science fiction, mathematical imagination, and philosophical satire, plus elegant wit. Flatland is short, strange, and enduringly influential, especially for anyone interested in how fiction can explain abstract ideas.