Badiou, Alain.
Number and numbers / Alain Badiou ; translated by Robin Mackay.
Cambridge ; Malden, MA : Polity, ©2008.
x, 240 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm
"In Number and Numbers Alain Badiou offers a philosophically penetrating account - with a powerful political subtext - of the attempts that have been made over the last century to define the special status of number. Badiou argues that number cannot be defined by the multiform calculative uses to which numbers are put, nor is it exhausted by the various species described by number theory. Drawing on the mathematical theory of 'surreal numbers', he develops a unified theory of Number as a particular form of being, an infinite expanse to which our access remains limited. This understanding of Number as being harbours important philosophical truths about the structure of the world in which we live."--Jacket.
9780745638782 (hbk.)
0745638783 (hbk.)
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9780745638799 (pbk.)
Mathematics Philosophy.
Mathématiques Philosophie.
Location: Library main 257460
Call No.: BIB 187956
Status: Available
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