Ad Infinitum... The Ghost in Turing's Machine - Taking God Out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back In. An Essay in Corporeal Semiotics (Paperback, Twenty-Third)

This ambitious work puts forward a new account of mathematics-as-language that challenges the coherence of the accepted idea of infinity and suggests a startlingly new conception of counting. The author questions the familiar, classical, interpretation of whole numbers held by mathematicians and scientists, and replaces it with an original and radical alternative-what the author calls non-Euclidean arithmetic. The author's entry point is an attack on the notion of the mathematical infinite in both its potential and actual forms, an attack organized around his claim that any interpretation of "endless" or "unlimited" iteration is ineradicably theological. Going further than critique of the overt metaphysics enshrined in the prevailing Platonist description of mathematics, he uncovers a covert theism, an appeal to a disembodied ghost, deep inside the mathematical community's understanding of counting.

General

Imprint:	Stanford University Press
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	September 1993
First published:	September 1993
Authors:	Brian Rotman
Dimensions:	229 x 152 x 16mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback - Trade / Trade
Pages:	224
Edition:	Twenty-Third
ISBN-13:	978-0-8047-2128-8
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Philosophy of mathematics Books > Science & Mathematics > Science: general issues > Philosophy of science
LSN:	0-8047-2128-9
Barcode:	9780804721288

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