Borges and Mathematics /
"Borges and Mathematics is a short book of essays that explores the scientific thinking of the Argentine writer Jorge Luis Borges (1899-1986). Around half of the book consists of two "lectures" focused on mathematics. The rest of the book reflects on the relationship between literatur...
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Format: | Electronic eBook |
Language: | Inglés Español |
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West Lafayette, Ind. :
Purdue University Press,
2012.
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Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access: | Texto completo |
Table of Contents:
- Borges and mathematics, first lecture
- Borges amd mathematics, second lecture
- The Golem and artificial intelligence
- The short story as logical system
- A margin too narrow
- Euclid, or, the aesthetics of mathematical reasoning
- Solutions and disillusionment
- The Pythagorean twins
- The music of chance
- Literature and rationality
- Who's afraid of the big bad one?
- A small, small god
- God's sinkhole.