Description: Contents: Introduction The Five Modes of Thought Mathematics as InformationNumber and SpaceLogic and InfinityPsychological Roots of Mathematical ConceptsA History of Ideas Section 1 Number Zero and OneNumbers and LogsNumber PatternsNumerology, Numberskulls, and CrowdsThe Mind ReckonerWords as NumbersThe Limits of Knowledge Section 2 Space Math Space and Real SpaceTiles, Cells, Pixels, and GridsAlgebraic CurvesWiggles and WhorlsEndless ComplexityFractalsLife is a Fractal in Hilbert SpaceHilbert Space Section 3 Logic The Laws of ThoughtThe SyllogismSymbolic LogicExploring Logical SpaceGodel's TheoremTuring MachinesUnsolvable ProblemsThe Ocean of Truth Section 4 Infinity and Information How Big is Infinity?Information and the Continuum ProblemInfinitesimals in PerspectiveAlgorithmic ComplexityInconceivability RuntimeEverything is Information Index
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Number of Pages: 238
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Author: Rudy Rucker
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Publication Year: 1987
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Publisher: Houghton Mifflin Company