Mathematician:Edwin Abbott Abbott

Mathematician

English mathematician and philosopher whose claim to mathematical immortality lies in his speculative fictional work Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions.

Nationality

English

History

• Born: 20 Dec 1838, Marylebone, Middlesex, England
• Died: 12 Oct 1926, Hampstead, London, England

Publications

• 1870: Shakespearean Grammar
• 1871: English Lessons for English People
• 1872: How to Write Clearly
• 1877: Bacon and Essex
• 1878: Philochristus
• 1882: Onesimus: Memoirs of a Disciple of Paul
• 1884: Flatland: a Romance of Many Dimensions
• 1886: Bacon's Essays
• 1905: Johannine Vocabulary
• 1906: Johannine Grammar
• 1906: Silanus the Christian

Sources

• John J. O'Connor and Edmund F. Robertson: "Edwin Abbott Abbott": MacTutor History of Mathematics archive