The unimaginable mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Bloch, William Goldbloom
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008.
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Table of 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.