Borges And Mathematics
DOWNLOAD
Download Borges And Mathematics PDF/ePub or read online books in Mobi eBooks. Click Download or Read Online button to get Borges And Mathematics book now. This website allows unlimited access to, at the time of writing, more than 1.5 million titles, including hundreds of thousands of titles in various foreign languages. If the content not found or just blank you must refresh this page
The Unimaginable Mathematics Of Borges Library Of Babel
DOWNLOAD
Author : William Goldbloom Bloch
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-08-25
The Unimaginable Mathematics Of Borges Library Of Babel written by William Goldbloom Bloch and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-25 with Mathematics categories.
"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 ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature. Written in the vein of Douglas R. Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gödel, Escher, Bach, this original and imaginative book sheds light on one of Borges' most complex, richly layered works. Bloch begins each chapter with a mathematical idea--combinatorics, topology, geometry, information theory--followed by examples and illustrations that put flesh on the theoretical bones. In this way, he provides many fascinating insights into Borges' Library. He explains, for instance, a straightforward way to calculate how many books are in the Library--an easily notated but literally unimaginable number--and also shows that, if each book were the size of a grain of sand, the entire universe could only hold a fraction of the books in the Library. Indeed, if each book were the size of a proton, our universe would still not be big enough to hold anywhere near all the books. Given Borges' well-known affection for mathematics, this exploration of the story through the eyes of a humanistic mathematician makes a unique and important contribution to the body of Borgesian criticism. Bloch not only illuminates one of the great short stories of modern literature but also exposes the reader--including those more inclined to the literary world--to many intriguing and entrancing mathematical ideas.
The Library Of Babel
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
language : en
Publisher: Pocket Paragon
Release Date : 2000
The Library Of Babel written by Jorge Luis Borges and has been published by Pocket Paragon this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Fiction categories.
"Not many living artists would be sufficiently brave or inspired to attempt reflecting in art what Borges constructs in words. But the detailed, evocative etchings by Erik Desmazieres provide a perfect counterpoint to the visionary prose. Like Borges, Desmazieres has created his own universe, his own definition of the meaning, topography and geography of the Library of Babel. Printed together, with the etchings reproduced in fine-line duotone, text and art unite to present an artist's book that belongs in the circle of Borges's sacrosanct Crimson Hexagon - "books smaller than natural books, books omnipotent, illustrated, and magical.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved
The Unimaginable Mathematics Of Borges Library Of Babel
DOWNLOAD
Author : William Goldbloom Bloch
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-08-25
The Unimaginable Mathematics Of Borges Library Of Babel written by William Goldbloom Bloch and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-25 with Literary Criticism categories.
Combinatorics -- Topology and cosmology -- Information theory -- Geometry and Graph Theory -- Real Analysis -- More Combinatorics -- A Homomorphism
The Book Of Sand
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1979
The Book Of Sand written by Jorge Luis Borges and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1979 with English fiction categories.
Includes the stories The Congress, Undr, The Mirror and the Mask, August 25, 1983, Blue Tigers, The Rose of Paracelsus and Shakespeare's Memory.
The Broken Dice And Other Mathematical Tales Of Chance
DOWNLOAD
Author : Ivar Ekeland
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1996-06-15
The Broken Dice And Other Mathematical Tales Of Chance written by Ivar Ekeland and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1996-06-15 with Mathematics categories.
Contemplating the randomness of nature, Ekeland extends his consideration of the catastrophe theory of the universe begun in Mathematics and the Unexpected, drawing upon rich literary sources and current topics in math and physics such as chaos theory, information theory, and particle physics. Line drawings.
Mathematics And The Imagination
DOWNLOAD
Author : Edward Kasner
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2013-04-22
Mathematics And The Imagination written by Edward Kasner and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-22 with Mathematics categories.
With wit and clarity, the authors progress from simple arithmetic to calculus and non-Euclidean geometry. Their subjects: geometry, plane and fancy; puzzles that made mathematical history; tantalizing paradoxes; more. Includes 169 figures.
Beautiful Simple Exact Crazy
DOWNLOAD
Author : Apoorva Khare
language : en
Publisher: Yale University Press
Release Date : 2015-08-25
Beautiful Simple Exact Crazy written by Apoorva Khare and has been published by Yale University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2015-08-25 with Mathematics categories.
In this vibrant work, which is ideal for both teaching and learning, Apoorva Khare and Anna Lachowska explain the mathematics essential for understanding and appreciating our quantitative world. They show with examples that mathematics is a key tool in the creation and appreciation of art, music, and literature, not just science and technology. The book covers basic mathematical topics from logarithms to statistics, but the authors eschew mundane finance and probability problems. Instead, they explain how modular arithmetic helps keep our online transactions safe, how logarithms justify the twelve-tone scale commonly used in music, and how transmissions by deep space probes are similar to knights serving as messengers for their traveling prince. Ideal for coursework in introductory mathematics and requiring no knowledge of calculus, Khare and Lachowska's enlightening mathematics tour will appeal to a wide audience.
The Unimaginable Mathematics Of Borges Library Of Babel
DOWNLOAD
Author : William Goldbloom Bloch
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-08-25
The Unimaginable Mathematics Of Borges Library Of Babel written by William Goldbloom Bloch and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2008-08-25 with Mathematics categories.
"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 ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature. Written in the vein of Douglas R. Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gödel, Escher, Bach, this original and imaginative book sheds light on one of Borges' most complex, richly layered works. Bloch begins each chapter with a mathematical idea--combinatorics, topology, geometry, information theory--followed by examples and illustrations that put flesh on the theoretical bones. In this way, he provides many fascinating insights into Borges' Library. He explains, for instance, a straightforward way to calculate how many books are in the Library--an easily notated but literally unimaginable number--and also shows that, if each book were the size of a grain of sand, the entire universe could only hold a fraction of the books in the Library. Indeed, if each book were the size of a proton, our universe would still not be big enough to hold anywhere near all the books. Given Borges' well-known affection for mathematics, this exploration of the story through the eyes of a humanistic mathematician makes a unique and important contribution to the body of Borgesian criticism. Bloch not only illuminates one of the great short stories of modern literature but also exposes the reader--including those more inclined to the literary world--to many intriguing and entrancing mathematical ideas.
Labyrinths
DOWNLOAD
Author : Jorge Luis Borges
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1970
Labyrinths written by Jorge Luis Borges and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1970 with English literature categories.
This is a collection, in translation, of the short, the very short stories, and a few of the critical essays of Argentina's most avant-garde writer. He was born of mixed Spanish, English, and remotely Portuguese-Jewish ancestry in Buenos Aires in 1899, inheriting as well the flux and inconsistency of a far-flung border area of Western culture. Borges began his litarary career as a poet, and then turned to these prose-poem stories and fables. They display an intellectual pyrotechnical brilliance, carried to the farthest limit. Borge's nihilism also far outstrips Sartre or Becket, and in comparison with his elegance, invention and universal culture, they are not much more than bourgeois humanists. This Argentinian, with a cabalistic turn of mind, takes all literature, philosophy and metaphysics as his domain and they become, as Andre Maurois says in his preface, "a game of the mind". Borges seeks to astonish and does so successfully.
Mathematics A Very Short Introduction
DOWNLOAD
Author : Timothy Gowers
language : en
Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks
Release Date : 2002-08-22
Mathematics A Very Short Introduction written by Timothy Gowers and has been published by Oxford Paperbacks this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2002-08-22 with Mathematics categories.
The aim of this volume is to explain the differences between research-level mathematics and the maths taught at school. Most differences are philosophical and the first few chapters are about general aspects of mathematical thought.