Three Trips through Flatland: interdisciplinary studies

Abstract

The scope of this article is to present three analyses elaborated in the interdisciplinarity field, based on the literary work Flatland – a romance of many dimensions, by Edwin A. Abbott. The book, whose characters are mathematical entities, is dealt here as a potential pedagogical resource to put Mathematics in dialogue with humanistic issues of historical, sociological, and philosophical interest, among other possible interpretations favored by its pedagogical appropriation. In a wider horizon, the article advocates a non-compartmentalized education that stimulates the development of complex thinking and a critical attitude towards society, pointing out literature as a way of reaching this intent.