The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel (Repost)

"The Library of Babel" is arguably Jorge Luis Borges' best known story–memorialized along with Borges on an Argentine postage stamp. Now, in The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel, William Goldbloom Bloch takes readers on a fascinating tour of the mathematical ideas hidden within one of the classic works of modern literature.