Infinity and the mind : the science and philosophy of the infinite
Publisher description: 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 Godel's rotating universe, in which it is theoretically possible to travel into the past, and explains an interpretation of quantum mechanics in which billions of parallel worlds are produced every microsecond. It is in the realm of infinity, he maintains, that mathematics, science, and logic merge with the fantastic. By closely examining the paradoxes that arise from this merging, we can learn a great deal about the human mind, its powers, and its limitations. Using cartoons, puzzles, and quotations to enliven his text, Rucker guides us through such topics as the paradoxes of set theory, the possibilities of physical infinities, and the results of Gödel's incompleteness theorems
eBook, English, 2005
2005 ed View all formats and editions
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., 2005
Ressources Internet
1 ressource en ligne (xx, 342 pages) : illustrations.
9781400849048, 1400849047
1031477941
Infinity
All the numbers
The unnameable
Robots and souls
The one and the many
The transfinite cardinals
Gödel's incompleteness theorems
Originally published: Boston : Birkhäuser, 1982