Bloch, William Goldbloom.

The unimaginable mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel / William Goldbloom Bloch. - Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2008. - xx, 192 p. : ill. ; 22 cm.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [175]-185) and index.

Combinatorics : contemplating variations of the 23 letters -- Information theory : cataloging the collection -- Real analysis : the book of sand -- Topology and cosmology : the universe (which others call the library) -- Geometry and graph theory : ambiguity and access -- More combinatorics : disordering into order -- A homomorphism : structure into meaning -- Critical points -- Openings.

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Borges, Jorge Luis, 1899-1986 --Knowledge--Mathematics.


Mathematics--Philosophy.
Mathematics and literature.