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Paperback. Zustand: Fair. No Jacket. Readable copy. Pages may have considerable notes/highlighting. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less. Ewing, John W. (illustrator).

Hardback. Zustand: Very Good. The Library of Babel is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story-memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature. Written in the vein of Douglas R. Hofstadter's Pulitzer Prize-winning Gödel, Escher, Bach, this original and imaginative book sheds light on one of Borges' most complex, richly layered works. Bloch begins each chapter with a mathematical idea-combinatorics, topology, geometry, information theory-followed by examples and illustrations that put flesh on the theoretical bones. In this way, he provides many fascinating insights into Borges' Library. He explains, for instance, a straightforward way to calculate how many books are in the Library-an easily notated but literally unimaginable number-and also shows that, if each book were the size of a grain of sand, the entire universe could only hold a fraction of the books in the Library. Indeed, if each book were the size of a proton, our universe would still not be big enough to hold anywhere near all the books. Given Borges' well-known affection for mathematics, this exploration of the story through the eyes of a humanistic mathematician makes a unique and important contribution to the body of Borgesian criticism. Bloch not only illuminates one of the great short stories of modern literature but also exposes the reader-including those more inclined to the literary world-to many intriguing and entrancing mathematical ideas.…

Zustand: New. Num Pages: 224 pages, 60 line illustrations. BIC Classification: 2ADS; DSBH; DSK; PB. Category: (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 217 x 149 x 19. Weight in Grams: 342. . 2008. hardcover. . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland.

Hardcover. Zustand: Brand New. illustrated edition. 224 pages. 8.25x5.75x1.00 inches. In Stock.

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Zustand: Very good. 1934, London, Seeley, Service & Co. Limited, pp383, black and white illustrations and fold out map, original beige cloth.

Couverture souple. Zustand: Bon. Edition originale. un volume in-8°, 160 pp. (12) pp. (extrait du catalogue de l'éditeur), couverture imprimée. (couverture légèrement brunie et faiblement marquée). Un hors-texte. Exemplaire non coupé.

Paperback. Zustand: Brand New. reprint edition. 465 pages. 10.50x8.25x1.00 inches. In Stock.

Zustand: Fine. 1966. 184 pages. Fine.

Single Issue Magazine. Zustand: Very Good. Signed. First Edition. SIGNED by Robert Bloch on the first page of his story "The Cloak." Minor chipping to the cover, tape on the spine, tanned pages. Cover by H. W. Scott. Fantasy stories by L. Ron Hubbard ("Danger in the Dark"), Robert Bloch ("The Cloak"), Steve Fisher, H. W. Guernsey, Robert Moore Williams, Mona Farnsworth, and L. Sprague De Camp ("Divide and Rule!" part 2 of 2). Illustrations by Edd Cartier, Fisk, Gilmore, Harry Kirchner, Paul Orban, and Hubert Rogers. 6 5/8" x 9 1/4"; black and white; 160 newsprint pages. Cover price $0.20.…