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Rudy Rucker
Born in Louisville,
Kentucky, on March 22, 1946. At that time his father had a small business
making inexpensive furniture and his mother was a housewife. He has one
sibling, a brother Embry, who is five years older, and still lives in
Louisville. He went to private schools in Louisville, graduating from St.
Xavier High School --- he was one of the few non-Catholics to attend that
school; his parents had the idea it was very good for science. "St. X". While
he was in high-school, his father became ordained as an Episcopal priest, and
worked as parish priest for the rest of his life. His mother, who was born in
Germany, was an enthusiastic gardener, amateur artist and potter.
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 Infinity and the
Mind
Princeton University Press. The Science and
Philosophy of the Infinite. Rudy Rucker leads an excursion to that stretch of
the universe he calls the "Mindscape," where he explores infinity in all its
forms: potential and actual, mathematical and physical, theological and
mundane. Here Rucker acquaints us with Godel's rotating universe, in which it
is theoretically possible to travel into the past, and explains an
interpretation of quantum mechanics in which billions of parallel worlds are
produced every microsecond. It is in the realm of infinity, he maintains, that
mathematics, science, and logic merge with the fantastic. Using cartoons,
puzzles, and quotations to enliven his text, Rucker guides us through such
topics as the paradoxes of set theory, the possibilities of physical
infinities, and the results of Godel's incompleteness theorems.
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 Mind Tools :
The Five Levels of Mathematical Reality
This is an
amazing book for teaching the concepts of mathematical logic, fractals, number
theory, and information theory. I have never seen these concepts introduced in
such an easy-to-understand fashion.
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