The unimaginable mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel /
"The Library of Babel" is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story--memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Oxford ; New York :
Oxford University Press,
2008.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Combinatorics : contemplating variations of the 23 letters
- Information theory : cataloging the collection
- Real analysis : the book of sand
- Topology and cosmology : the universe (which others call the library)
- Geometry and graph theory : ambiguity and access
- More combinatorics : disordering into order
- A homomorphism : structure into meaning
- Critical points
- Openings.