Infinity And The Mind by Rudy Rucker
The Science and Philosophy of the Infinite
An accessible, playful exploration of infinity that blends mathematics, philosophy, and computer science, tracing ideas from Cantor’s set theory through Gödel and Turing to modern views of chaos and the infinite. It explains different kinds of infinity, transfinite numbers, paradoxes, and formal results while probing their implications for cosmology, art, computation, and consciousness. With anecdotes, thought experiments, and visual metaphors, the work invites readers to see how notions of the infinite shape both mathematical thought and human imagination.
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- 1982
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