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The unimaginable mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel / William Goldbloom Bloch.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Bloch, William Goldbloom, author.
- Series:
- Oxford scholarship online.
- Oxford scholarship online
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986--Knowledge--Mathematics.
- Borges, Jorge Luis.
- Mathematics and literature.
- Mathematics--Philosophy.
- Mathematics.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (213 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford ; Oxford University Press, 2023.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- 'The Library of Babel' is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story - memorialised along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. In this volume, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature.
- Contents:
- 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.
- Notes:
- Formerly CIP.
- Previously issued in print: 2008.
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-185) and index.
- Derived record based on print version record and publisher information.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-772732-8
- 0-19-988730-6
- 1-281-72398-3
- 9786611723989
- 0-19-971516-5
- OCLC:
- 476246190
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