Infinity and the Mind : : The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite / / Rudy Rucker.
In Infinity and the Mind, Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in all its forms: potential and actual, mathematical and physical, theological and mundane. Rucker acquaints us with Gödel's rotating universe,...
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| Superior document: | Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Archive 1927-1999 |
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| Place / Publishing House: | Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2013] ©1995 |
| Year of Publication: | 2013 |
| Edition: | Course Book |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Princeton Science Library ;
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (368 p.) :; 3 halftones. 107 line illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- TABLE OF CONTENTS
- Preface to the 2005 Edition
- Preface to the Paperback Edition
- Preface
- Chapter One: Infinity
- Chapter Two: All the Numbers
- Chapter Three: The Unnameable
- Chapter Four: Robots and Souls
- Chapter Five: The One and the Many
- Excursion One: The Transfinite Cardinals
- Excursion Two: Godel's Incompleteness Theorems
- Answers to the Puzzles and Paradoxes
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Index