About this title: "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 Godel, 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 ...
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Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780195334579ISBN:0195334574
Description: New. No dust jacket as issued. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 192 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Brand New Hardcover with Dust Jacket-Just Arrived from Publisher-Ships with Tracking # read more
Binding: Hardcover
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Date Published: 2008
ISBN-13:9780195334579ISBN:0195334574
Description: New. No dust jacket. Sewn binding. Cloth over boards. With dust jacket. 192 p. Contains: Illustrations. Audience: General/trade. Brand new hard cover with dust sleeve ready to ship with tracking # read more
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