AESTHETICS OF MATHEMATICS: THE LIBRARY OF BABEL

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Published: Dec 1, 2017
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Math, Library, Borges

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Juan Manuel González de Piñera
Facultad de Filosofía y Letras. Universidad de Buenos Aires

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The universe of discourse (i.e. “The library of Babel”) is It is made up of galleries, shelves, books and librarians who go through and through them. Its elements are few but innumerable: in this way they generate certainties of the same degree but the same number of mysteries as mathematics. Jorge Luis Borges read Chesterton with the same expectations as Russell. Whether in Cantor, in the Summa Theologicaor in the Bible, he did not seek a full explanation of reality any more than in the Divine Comedyor The Thousand and One Nights , not least the aesthetic fascination. Hardly distinguishable from one another, his short stories and essays are there to prove it.

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González de Piñera, J. M. (2017). AESTHETICS OF MATHEMATICS: THE LIBRARY OF BABEL. TRAZOS – Revista De Estudiantes De Filosofía, 2(1), 105-110. Retrieved from https://ojs.unsj.edu.ar/index.php/trazos/article/view/793
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Vol 2 No 1 (2017): Art and Philosophy
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Ensayos filosóficos
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