The unimaginable mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel [electronic resource] / William Goldbloom Bloch.
By: Bloch, William Goldbloom.
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Publisher: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008Description: xx, 192 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.Subject(s): Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 -- Knowledge -- Mathematics | Mathematics and literature | Mathematics -- PhilosophyGenre/Form: Electronic books.DDC classification: 868 Online resources: An electronic book accessible through the World Wide Web; click to view | Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index.
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.
Electronic reproduction. Palo Alto, Calif. : ebrary, 2009. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ebrary affiliated libraries.