{"id":75,"date":"2008-08-14T15:08:09","date_gmt":"2008-08-14T14:08:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/?p=75"},"modified":"2009-06-29T08:33:31","modified_gmt":"2009-06-29T07:33:31","slug":"combinatorics-and-the-library-of-babel-by-borges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/information-organisation\/combinatorics-and-the-library-of-babel-by-borges\/","title":{"rendered":"Combinatorics and the Library of Babel by Borges"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just published: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.oup.com\/us\/catalog\/general\/subject\/Mathematics\/?ci=9780195334579&amp;view=usa\">The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges&#8217; Library of Babel by William Goldbloom Bloch<\/a> (Oxford University Press 2008). The Library of Babel has a lot to do with combinatorics. <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Jorge_Luis_Borges\">Jorge Luis Borges<\/a>&#8216; essay was influenced by another one by the German <a href=\"http:\/\/de.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Kurd_La%C3%9Fwitz\">Kurd Lasswitz<\/a>, the father of modern &#8220;science fiction&#8221;: <a href=\"http:\/\/gutenberg.spiegel.de\/lasswitz\/univbib\/univbib.htm\">Die Universalbibliothek (The universal library)<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>See also <a href=\"http:\/\/www.horst-zuse.homepage.t-online.de\/informatik-geschichte-html-2008\/2-Caetano-da-Rosa.pdf\">Catarina Caetano da Rosa&#8217;s German paper with the title &#8220;Bibliotheken von Babel: Wunsch- und Albtraum des unendlichen Wissensraumes (Libraries of Babel: great dream and nightmare of the infinite knowledge space)&#8221;<\/a> at the Workshop called &#8220;Architekturen der digitalen Weltbibliothek aus historischer und aktueller Perspektive (Architectures of the digital world library from a historical and actual view)&#8221; at a computer sciences conference in Germany in 2007 (37. Jahrestagung der Gesellschaft f\u00c3\u00bcr Informatik (GI)).<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just published: The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges&#8217; Library of Babel by William Goldbloom Bloch (Oxford University Press 2008). The Library of Babel has a lot to do with combinatorics. Jorge Luis Borges&#8216; essay was influenced by another one by the German Kurd Lasswitz, the father of modern &#8220;science fiction&#8221;: Die Universalbibliothek (The universal library). See [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[5],"tags":[73,74,12,40],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=75"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/75\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=75"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=75"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/notes.hapke.de\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=75"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}