Ad Infinitum... the Ghost in Turing's Machine: Taking God Out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back...

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Brian Rotman

Ad Infinitum... the Ghost in Turing's Machine

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Taking God Out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back in. an Essay in Corporeal Semiotics...

Brian Rotman

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English

STANFORD UNI PRESS
01 September 1993

Philosophy; Philosophy of mathematics; Philosophy of science

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 replaces it with a radical alternative. The author bases his analysis on the development of a semiotic model that characterizes mathematics as a form of discourse organized around certain kinds of waking dreams or thought experiments. The model allows him to articulate the role of the sign-using mathematical subject and of that subject's imagined self which plays a crucial part in achieving mathematical persuasion. Ad Infinitum is a significant contribution to postmodern epistemology and the philosophy of science.

By: Brian Rotman
Imprint: STANFORD UNI PRESS
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: New edition
Dimensions: Height: 229mm, Width: 152mm, Spine: 13mm
Weight: 290g
ISBN: 9780804721288
ISBN 10: 0804721289
Pages: 224
Publication Date: 01 September 1993
Audience: College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , General/trade , A / AS level , Further / Higher Education
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

CONTENTS ABSTRACT ...1 ...2 ...3 ...4 ...5 ...6 APPENDIX

Brian Rotman is an independent scholar and the author of, most recently, Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero.

Reviews for Ad Infinitum... the Ghost in Turing's Machine: Taking God Out of Mathematics and Putting the Body Back in. an Essay in Corporeal Semiotics

Rotman uses semiotics to focus on the infinite and the meaning of the mathematician's ellipsis. . . . He argues persuasively that a constructive model of the infinite is inherent in the literary acts of mathematicians. -- Choice