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The Library of Babel

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : Pocket Paragon
Release Date : 2000
ISBN 10 : UOM:39015049977229
Pages : 56 pages
Rating : 4./5 ( downloads)

Download The Library of Babel PDF Format Full Free by Jorge Luis Borges and published by Pocket Paragon. This book was released on 2000 with total page 56 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Not many living artists would be sufficiently brave or inspired to attempt reflecting in art what Borges constructs in words. But the detailed, evocative etchings by Erik Desmazieres provide a perfect counterpoint to the visionary prose. Like Borges, Desmazieres has created his own universe, his own definition of the meaning, topography and geography of the Library of Babel. Printed together, with the etchings reproduced in fine-line duotone, text and art unite to present an artist's book that belongs in the circle of Borges's sacrosanct Crimson Hexagon - "books smaller than natural books, books omnipotent, illustrated, and magical.""--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved

The Origin of Wealth

Author : Eric D. Beinhocker
Publisher : Harvard Business Press
Release Date : 2006
ISBN 10 : 157851777X
Pages : 556 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (578 downloads)

Download The Origin of Wealth PDF Format Full Free by Eric D. Beinhocker and published by Harvard Business Press. This book was released on 2006 with total page 556 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Beinhocker has written this work in order to introduce a broad audience to what he believes is a revolutionary new paradigm in economics and its implications for our understanding of the creation of wealth. He describes how the growing field of complexity theory allows for evolutionary understanding of wealth creation, in which business designs co-evolve with the evolution of technologies and organizational innovations. In addition to giving his audience a tour of this field of complexity economics, he discusses its implications for real-world issues of business.

Archetype, Architecture, and the Writer

Author : Bettina L. Knapp
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Release Date : 1986-04-22
ISBN 10 : 0253308577
Pages : 236 pages
Rating : 4.3/5 (253 downloads)

Download Archetype, Architecture, and the Writer PDF Format Full Free by Bettina L. Knapp and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 1986-04-22 with total page 236 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Altogether, the work is a delight, offering an unusual, provocative view on the disparate texts, with the added pleasure of lucid graceful prose." —Journal of Modern Literature Bettina Knapp probes the nature, meaning, and use of the architectural metaphors and archetypes that pervade all literature.

Cy-Borges

Author : Stefan Herbrechter
Publisher : Associated University Presse
Release Date : 2009
ISBN 10 : 0838757154
Pages : 230 pages
Rating : 4.7/5 (838 downloads)

Download Cy-Borges PDF Format Full Free by Stefan Herbrechter and published by Associated University Presse. This book was released on 2009 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Cy-Borges provides radically new, "posthumanist" readings of such established Borgesian fictions as "The Aleph," "The Library of Babel," "Funes the Memorious," "The Garden of Forking Paths," and "The Circular Ruins." They will be equally illuminating to readers of Hispanic and world literature, as to students of critical and cultural theory, and anybody who is fascinated with the idea of the "posthuman" and "posthumanism.""--BOOK JACKET.

Labyrinths

Author : Jorge Luis Borges
Publisher : New Directions Publishing
Release Date : 1964
ISBN 10 : 0811200124
Pages : 292 pages
Rating : 4.2/5 (811 downloads)

Download Labyrinths PDF Format Full Free by Jorge Luis Borges and published by New Directions Publishing. This book was released on 1964 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Forty short stories and essays have been selected as representative of the Argentine writer's metaphysical narratives

The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel

Author : William Goldbloom Bloch
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2008-08-25
ISBN 10 : 9780195334579
Pages : 213 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (334 downloads)

Download The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel PDF Format Full Free by William Goldbloom Bloch and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2008-08-25 with total page 213 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combinatorics -- Topology and cosmology -- Information theory -- Geometry and Graph Theory -- Real Analysis -- More Combinatorics -- A Homomorphism

The Library Book

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Publisher : Profile Books
Release Date : 2012-02-02
ISBN 10 : 9781847658401
Pages : 132 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (658 downloads)

Download The Library Book PDF Format Full Free by and published by Profile Books. This book was released on 2012-02-02 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Alan Bennett's Baffled at a Bookcase, to Lucy Mangan's Library Rules, famous writers tell us all about how libraries are used and why they're important. Tom Holland writes about libraries in the ancient world, while Seth Godin describes what a library will look like in the future. Lionel Shriver thinks books are the best investment, Hardeep Singh Kohli makes a confession and Julie Myerson remembers how her career began beside the shelves. Using memoir, history, polemic and some short stories too, The Library Book celebrates 'that place where they lend you books for free' and the people who work there. All royalties go to The Reading Agency, to help their work supporting libraries.

Not Just for Children: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Play

Author : Elena Xeni
Publisher : BRILL
Release Date : 2019-07-22
ISBN 10 : 9781848884984
Pages : 100 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (884 downloads)

Download Not Just for Children: Interdisciplinary Explorations of Play PDF Format Full Free by Elena Xeni and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2019-07-22 with total page 100 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With input from authors with a strong background in the study of play, this volume is a must-read for anyone with an interest in play from an interdisciplinary perspective, covering the areas of sociology, technology, creative arts, history, and philosophy.

Literary Infinities

Author : Baylee Brits
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2017-11-16
ISBN 10 : 9781501331473
Pages : 176 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (331 downloads)

Download Literary Infinities PDF Format Full Free by Baylee Brits and published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA. This book was released on 2017-11-16 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Today, we have forgotten that mathematics was once aligned with the arts, rather than with the sciences. Literary Infinities analyses the connection between the late 19th-century revolution in the mathematics of the infinite and the literature of 20th-century modernism, opening up a novel path of influence and inquiry in modernist literature. Baylee Brits considers the role of numbers and the concept of the infinite in key modernists, including James Joyce, Italo Svevo, Jorge Luis Borges, Samuel Beckett and J.M. Coetzee. She begins by recuperating the difficult and rebellious German mathematician, Georg Cantor, for the broader artistic, cultural and philosophical project of modernism. Cantor revolutionized the mathematics of the infinite, creating reverberations across the numerical sciences, philosophy, religion and literary modernism. This 'modernist' infinity is shown to undergird and shape key innovations in narrative form, creating a bridge between the mathematical and the literary, presentation and representation, formalism and the tactile imagination.

New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales

Author : Stephen Webb
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2019-01-07
ISBN 10 : 9783030031954
Pages : 305 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (31 downloads)

Download New Light Through Old Windows: Exploring Contemporary Science Through 12 Classic Science Fiction Tales PDF Format Full Free by Stephen Webb and published by Springer. This book was released on 2019-01-07 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book presents the reader with some of the earliest classic SF short stories – all of them published between 1858 and 1934, featuring both well-known and long-forgotten writers – dealing for the first time with topics to which science had (some) answers only at much later stages. This includes aspects of alien life forms, transmogrification, pandemics, life on Mars, android robots, big data, matter transmission and impact events to name but a few. The short stories are reprinted in full alongside extensive commentaries which also examine some of the latest scientific thinking surrounding the story’s main theme and provide the reader with suggestions for further reading.

Borges' Short Stories

Author : Rex Butler
Publisher : A&C Black
Release Date : 2010-03-25
ISBN 10 : 9780826452139
Pages : 151 pages
Rating : 4.1/5 (452 downloads)

Download Borges' Short Stories PDF Format Full Free by Rex Butler and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 2010-03-25 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Readers Guide to ten of Argentinian writer Jorge Luis Borges' best-known and most widely studied short stories.

The Borges Enigma

Author : Cynthia Lucy Stephens
Publisher : Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2021
ISBN 10 : 9781855663497
Pages : 315 pages
Rating : 4.4/5 (663 downloads)

Download The Borges Enigma PDF Format Full Free by Cynthia Lucy Stephens and published by Boydell & Brewer. This book was released on 2021 with total page 315 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Borges once stated that he had never created a character: 'It's always me, subtly disguised'. This book focuses on the ways in which Borges uses events and experiences from his own life, in order to demonstrate how they become the principal structuring motifs of his work. It aims to show how these experiences, despite being 'heavily disguised', are crucial components of some of Borges's most canonical short stories, particularly from the famous collections Ficciones and El Aleph. Exploring the rich tapestry of symmetries, doubles and allusions and the roles played by translation and the figure of the creator, the book provides new readings of these stories, revealing their hidden personal, emotional and spiritual dimensions. These insights shed fresh light on Borges's supreme literary craftsmanship and the intimate puzzles of his fictions.

Infinity and the Mind

Author : Rudy Rucker
Publisher : Рипол Классик
Release Date :
ISBN 10 : 9785885010894
Pages : pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (1 downloads)

Download Infinity and the Mind PDF Format Full Free by Rudy Rucker and published by Рипол Классик. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The book contains popular expositions (accessible to readers with no more than a high school mathematics background) on the mathematical theory of infinity, and a number of related topics. These include G?del's incompleteness theorems and their relationship to concepts of artificial intelligence and the human mind, as well as the conceivability of some unconventional cosmological models. The material is approached from a variety of viewpoints, some more conventionally mathematical and others being nearly mystical. There is a brief account of the author's personal contact with Kurt G?del.An appendix contains one of the few popular expositions on set theory research on what are known as "strong axioms of infinity."

The Musical Representation

Author : Charles O. Nussbaum
Publisher : MIT Press
Release Date : 2007
ISBN 10 : 9780262140966
Pages : 401 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (14 downloads)

Download The Musical Representation PDF Format Full Free by Charles O. Nussbaum and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2007 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How human musical experience emerges from the audition of organized tones is a riddle of long standing. In The Musical Representation, Charles Nussbaum offers a philosophical naturalist's solution. Nussbaum founds his naturalistic theory of musical representation on the collusion between the physics of sound and the organization of the human mind-brain. He argues that important varieties of experience afforded by Western tonal art music since 1650 arise through the feeling of tone, the sense of movement in musical space, cognition, emotional arousal, and the engagement, by way of specific emotional responses, of deeply rooted human ideals. Construing the art music of the modern West as representational, as a symbolic system that carries extramusical content, Nussbaum attempts to make normative principles of musical representation explicit and bring them into reflective equilibrium with the intuitions of competent listeners. Nussbaum identifies three modes of musical representation, describes the basis of extramusical meaning, and analyzes musical works as created historical entities (performances of which are tokens or replicas). In addition, he explains how music gives rise to emotions and evokes states of mind that are religious in character. Nussbaum's argument proceeds from biology, psychology, and philosophy to music--and occasionally from music back to biology, psychology, and philosophy. The human mind-brain, writes Nussbaum, is a living record of its evolutionary history; relatively recent cognitive acquisitions derive from older representational functions of which we are hardly aware. Consideration of musical art can help bring to light the more ancient cognitive functions that underlie modern human cognition. The biology, psychology, and philosophy of musical representation, he argues, have something to tell us about what we are, based on what we have been.

Tar for Mortar

Author : Jonathan Basile
Publisher : punctum books
Release Date : 2018
ISBN 10 : 9781947447509
Pages : 110 pages
Rating : 4.5/5 (447 downloads)

Download Tar for Mortar PDF Format Full Free by Jonathan Basile and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2018 with total page 110 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: TAR FOR MORTAR offers an in-depth exploration of one of literature's greatest tricksters, Jorge Luis Borges. His short story "The Library of Babel" is a signature examplar of this playfulness, though not merely for the inverted world it imagines, where a library thought to contain all possible permutations of all letters and words and books is plumbed by pious librarians looking for divinely pre-fabricated truths. One must grapple as well with the irony of Borges's narration, which undermines at every turn its narrator's claims of the library's universality, including the very possibility of exhausting meaning through combinatory processing. Borges directed readers to his non-fiction to discover the true author of the idea of the universal library. But his supposedly historical essays are notoriously riddled with false references and self-contradictions. Whether in truth or in fiction, Borges never reaches a stable conclusion about the atomic premises of the universal library - is it possible to find a character set capable of expressing all possible meaning, or do these letters, like his stories and essays, divide from themselves in a restless incompletion? While many readers of Borges see him as presaging our digital technologies, they often give too much credit to our inventions in doing so. Those who elide the necessary incompletion of the Library of Babel compare it to the Internet on the assumption that both are total archives of all possible thought and expression. Though Borges's imaginings lend themselves to digital creativity (libraryofbabel.info is certainly evidence of this), they do so by showing the necessary incompleteness of every totalizing project, no matter how technologically refined. Ultimately, Basile nudges readers toward the idea that a fictional/imaginary exposition can hold a certain power over technology.

How Creativity Happens in the Brain

Author : Arne Dietrich
Publisher : Springer
Release Date : 2015-08-11
ISBN 10 : 9781137501806
Pages : 230 pages
Rating : 4.8/5 (51 downloads)

Download How Creativity Happens in the Brain PDF Format Full Free by Arne Dietrich and published by Springer. This book was released on 2015-08-11 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Creativity Happens In The Brain is about the brain mechanisms of creativity, how a grapefruit-sized heap of meat crackling with electricity manages to be so outrageously creative. It has a sharp focus: to stick exclusively to sound, mechanistic explanations and convey what we can, and cannot, say about how brains give rise to creative ideas.

Celestial Tapestry

Author : Nicholas Mee
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2020-09-11
ISBN 10 : 9780192592934
Pages : 192 pages
Rating : 4.9/5 (592 downloads)

Download Celestial Tapestry PDF Format Full Free by Nicholas Mee and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2020-09-11 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Artists and scientists view the world in quite different ways. Nevertheless, they are united in a search for hidden order beneath surface appearances. The quest for eternal geometrical designs is also seen in the sacred mathematical patterns created by the world's great religions. Tibetan monks fashion chalk mandalas representing the emergence of order in the universe. Moslem architects wrap their buildings in elaborate abstract tessellating designs. Celestial Tapestry places mathematics within a vibrant cultural and historical context. Threads are woven together telling of surprising influences that pass between the Arts and Mathematics. The story involves intriguing characters: the soldier who laid the foundations for fractals and computer art while recovering in hospital after suffering serious injury in the First World War; the mathematician imprisoned for bigamy whose books had a huge influence on twentieth century art; the pioneer clockmaker who suffered from leprosy; the Victorian housewife who amazed mathematicians with her intuition for higher-dimensional space.