The Aleph

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• Don Borges

  The success of Borges is happy and astonishing. I do not think it is hard to explain. He is a gift to the professors; he plays with ancient coin. More seriously, he has turned his back on the self-dramatizations and wordy hypochondria of the Zeitgeis ... (read full critics)

  nybooks published on Thu, 26 Aug 2010

• The Mystery of the Aleph: Mathematics, the Kabbalah, and the Search for Infinity

  In The Mystery of the Aleph Aczel sketches a history of the mathematics of infinity, focusing on key mathematicians. Around a third of it is devoted to Georg Cantor; before him Aczel touches on the Pythagoreans, the Kabbalah, Galileo and Bolzano, and ... (read full critics)

  dannyreviews published on Tue, 24 Aug 2010

2 Reviews

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  dreams and sight, folly and hope mingle themeselves in this collection of short stories, that travel deep inside soul, mind and heart. there's a lot to remember and a lot to dream about.

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  Borges: un personaggio interessante!

  "The pleasure of studying, not the vanity of mastering, has been my chief aim, and I have not been disappointed..."

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• English Books
• Paperback 224 Pages
• Edition: New Ed
• ISBN-10: 0141183837
• ISBN-13: 9780141183831
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd
• Pub date: Sep 07, 2000
• Dimensions: 1226 mm x 839 mm x 129 mm Just how big is that?
• Also available as: Hardcover and Others
• In other languages: other languages Livres Français, Deutsche Bücher, Libros en Español, Libri Italiani

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