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Ad Infinitum... the Ghost in Turing's Machine

Taking God Out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back in. an Essay in Corporeal Semiotics

Ad Infinitum... the Ghost in Turing's Machine( )
Author: Rotman, Brian
ISBN:978-0-8047-2127-1
Publication Date:Sep 1993
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $130.00
Book Description:

This ambitious work puts forward a new account of mathematics-as-language that challenges the coherence of the accepted idea of infinity and suggests a startlingly new conception of counting. The author questions the familiar, classical, interpretation of whole numbers held by mathematicians and scientists, and replaces it with an original and radical alternative--what the author calls non-Euclidean arithmetic. The author's entry point is an attack on the notion of the...
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Book Details
Pages:224
Detailed Subjects: Mathematics / Infinity
Mathematics / History & Philosophy
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):5.928 x 8.931 x 0.585 Inches
Book Weight:1.465 Pounds



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