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Mind Tools: The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality
by Rudy v. B Rucker
- Used
- as new
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- As New/as new
- ISBN 10
- 0395383153
- ISBN 13
- 9780395383155
- Seller
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Chicago, Illinois, United States
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About This Item
Houghton Mifflin, 1987. First printing. Hardcover. As New/as new. 8vo, 328 pages, clothbacked boards
"MIND TOOLS is an original and fascinating look at various aspects of mathematics that is sure to fascinate the nonmathematician. Throughout Rucker has the gift of the apt illustration that makes the most abstruse notion accessible - Isaac Asimov." "Approaching all of mathematics, and everything else, by way of information theory, his latest and most exciting book opens vistas of dazzling beauty - scenes that blend order with chao, reality with fantasy, that startle you with their depths of impenatrable mystery - Martin Gardner." Rucker also won the Philip K. Dick Award for his s-f novel, SOFTWARE; and he is recognized as the founder of cyberpunk sci-fi.
"MIND TOOLS is an original and fascinating look at various aspects of mathematics that is sure to fascinate the nonmathematician. Throughout Rucker has the gift of the apt illustration that makes the most abstruse notion accessible - Isaac Asimov." "Approaching all of mathematics, and everything else, by way of information theory, his latest and most exciting book opens vistas of dazzling beauty - scenes that blend order with chao, reality with fantasy, that startle you with their depths of impenatrable mystery - Martin Gardner." Rucker also won the Philip K. Dick Award for his s-f novel, SOFTWARE; and he is recognized as the founder of cyberpunk sci-fi.
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Details
- Bookseller
- Thomas J. Joyce And Company (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5193
- Title
- Mind Tools:
- Author
- Rudy v. B Rucker
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New As New
- Jacket Condition
- as new
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First printing
- ISBN 10
- 0395383153
- ISBN 13
- 9780395383155
- Publisher
- Houghton Mifflin
- Place of Publication
- Boston
- Date Published
- 1987
- Keywords
- mathematics, information theory, philsophy of mathematics,
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About the Seller
Thomas J. Joyce And Company
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Chicago, Illinois
About Thomas J. Joyce And Company
Joyce And Company has been in business as a professional rare bookseller and appraiser since 1975. Owner Thomas Joyce was the regular book appraiser on Home & Garden TV\'s \"The Appraisal Fair\\\" program, on international broadcasts. Thomas Joyce was the co-discoverer of George Washington's personal copy of William Leybourn's 1679 edition of THE COMPLEAT SURVEYOR, from which young Washington learned some of his surveying skills at age 16. The book had vanished for nearly a century until its re-discovery in 2017. It is now back at Mt. Vernon.
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