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- Book Title
- Ad Infinitum...the Ghost in Turing's Machine : Taking God Out of
- ISBN
- 9780804721271
- Subject Area
- Mathematics, Philosophy
- Publication Name
- Ad Infinitum... the Ghost in Turing's Machine : Taking God Out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back in. an Essay in Corporeal Semiotics
- Item Length
- 9 in
- Publisher
- Stanford University Press
- Subject
- History & Philosophy, Infinity, Metaphysics
- Publication Year
- 1993
- Type
- Textbook
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- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 0.6 in
- Item Width
- 6 in
- Item Weight
- 23.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 224 Pages
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This ambitious work puts forward a new account of mathematics-as-language that challenges the coherence of the accepted idea of infinity and suggests a startlingly new conception of counting. The author questions the familiar, classical, interpretation of whole numbers held by mathematicians and scientists, and replaces it with an original and radical alternative--what the author calls non-Euclidean arithmetic. The author's entry point is an attack on the notion of the mathematical infinite in both its potential and actual forms, an attack organized around his claim that any interpretation of "endless" or "unlimited" iteration is ineradicably theological. Going further than critique of the overt metaphysics enshrined in the prevailing Platonist description of mathematics, he uncovers a covert theism, an appeal to a disembodied ghost, deep inside the mathematical community's understanding of counting.
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Stanford University Press
ISBN-10
0804721270
ISBN-13
9780804721271
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Product Key Features
Publication Name
Ad Infinitum... the Ghost in Turing's Machine : Taking God Out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back in. an Essay in Corporeal Semiotics
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
History & Philosophy, Infinity, Metaphysics
Publication Year
1993
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Mathematics, Philosophy
Number of Pages
224 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9 in
Item Height
0.6 in
Item Width
6 in
Item Weight
23.5 Oz
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92-026420
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Scholarly & Professional
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Qa9
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"Rotman uses semiotics to focus on the infinite and the meaning of the mathematician's ellipsis. . . . He argues persuasively that a constructive model of the infinite is inherent in the literary acts of mathematicians."— Choice, "Rotman uses semiotics to focus on the infinite and the meaning of the mathematician's ellipsis. . . . He argues persuasively that a constructive model of the infinite is inherent in the literary acts of mathematicians."-- Choice, Rotman uses semiotics to focus on the infinite and the meaning of the mathematician's ellipsis. . . . He argues persuasively that a constructive model of the infinite is inherent in the literary acts of mathematicians."— Choice, "Rotman uses semiotics to focus on the infinite and the meaning of the mathematician's ellipsis. . . . He argues persuasively that a constructive model of the infinite is inherent in the literary acts of mathematicians."-Choice, "Rotman uses semiotics to focus on the infinite and the meaning of the mathematician's ellipsis. . . . He argues persuasively that a constructive model of the infinite is inherent in the literary acts of mathematicians."- Choice
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1993
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