The unimaginable mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel /
[Book]
William Goldbloom Bloch
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