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  • Sonic Time Machines

    Explicit Sound, Sirenic Voices, and Implicit Sonicity

    par Wolfgang Ernst ...
    Collection series Recursions
    Our studies of aesthetics and knowledge have long tended to privilege the visual - at the expense, Wolfgang Ernst argues, of the aural. Sonic Time Machines aims to correct that, presenting a striking new approach to theorising sound that investigates its split existence: as a temporal effect in a techno-cultural context and as a source of knowledge and information. Ernst creates a new term for the ... En savoir plus

    CHF 52.38

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  • Composing Electronic Music

    A New Aesthetic

    par Curtis Roads ...
    Electronic music evokes new sensations, feelings, and thoughts in both composers and listeners. Opening the door to an unlimited universe of sound, it engages spatialization as an integral aspect of composition and focuses on sound transformation as a core structural strategy. In this new domain, pitch occurs as a flowing and ephemeral substance that can be bent, modulated, or dissolved into noise ... En savoir plus

    CHF 44.31

  • Meta Math!

    The Quest for Omega

    par Gregory Chaitin ...
    Gregory Chaitin, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, leads us on a spellbinding journey, illuminating the process by which he arrived at his groundbreaking theory.Chaitin’s revolutionary discovery, the Omega number, is an exquisitely complex representation of unknowability in mathematics. His investigations shed light on what we can ultimately know about the universe and the very nature of ... En savoir plus

    CHF 8.30

  • Unended Quest

    An Intellectual Autobiography

    par Karl Popper ...
    Collection series Routledge Classics
    At the age of eight, Karl Popper was puzzling over the idea of infinity and by fifteen was beginning to take a keen interest in his father's well-stocked library of books. Unended Quest recounts these moments and many others in the life of one of the most influential thinkers of the twentieth century, providing an indispensable account of the ideas that influenced him most. As an introduction to ... En savoir plus

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  • The Unimaginable Mathematics of Borges' Library of Babel

    par William Goldbloom Bloch ...
    "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. Written in the vein of Douglas R. Hofstadter's ... En savoir plus

    CHF 23.28

  • Proofs and Refutations

    The Logic of Mathematical Discovery

    par Imre Lakatos ...
    Collection series Cambridge Philosophy Classics
    Imre Lakatos's Proofs and Refutations is an enduring classic, which has never lost its relevance. Taking the form of a dialogue between a teacher and some students, the book considers various solutions to mathematical problems and, in the process, raises important questions about the nature of mathematical discovery and methodology. Lakatos shows that mathematics grows through a process of ... En savoir plus

    CHF 19.18

  • History of Modern Mathematics

    par David E Smith ...
    In considering the history of modern mathematics two questions at once arise:(1) What limitations shall be placed upon the term Mathematics?(2) What force shall be assigned to the word Modern? In other words, how shall Modern Mathematics be defined?In these pages the term Mathematics will be limited to the domain of pure science. Questions of the applications of the various branches will be ... En savoir plus

    CHF 2.41

  • Sound

    An Acoulogical Treatise

    par Michel Chion ...
    Traduit par James A Steintrager ...
    First published in French in 1998, revised in 2010, and appearing here in English for the first time, Michel Chion's Sound addresses the philosophical, interpretive, and practical questions that inform our encounters with sound. Chion considers how cultural institutions privilege some sounds above others and how spurious distinctions between noise and sound guide the ways we hear and value certain ... En savoir plus

    CHF 20.30

  • Sonic Flux

    Sound, Art, and Metaphysics

    par Christoph Cox ...
    From Edison's invention of the phonograph through contemporary field recording and sound installation, artists have become attracted to those domains against which music has always defined itself: noise, silence, and environmental sound. Christoph Cox argues that these developments in the sonic arts are not only aesthetically but also philosophically significant, revealing sound to be a continuous ... En savoir plus

    CHF 13.74 ou Gratuit avec Kobo Plus

  • Circles Disturbed

    The Interplay of Mathematics and Narrative

    Modifié par Apostolos Doxiadis, Barry Mazur ...
    Why narrative is essential to mathematicsCircles Disturbed brings together important thinkers in mathematics, history, and philosophy to explore the relationship between mathematics and narrative. The book's title recalls the last words of the great Greek mathematician Archimedes before he was slain by a Roman soldier—"Don't disturb my circles"—words that seem to refer to two radically different ... En savoir plus

    CHF 44.72

  • Games and Mathematics

    Subtle Connections

    par David Wells ...
    The appeal of games and puzzles is timeless and universal. In this unique book, David Wells explores the fascinating connections between games and mathematics, proving that mathematics is not just about tedious calculation but imagination, insight and intuition. The first part of the book introduces games, puzzles and mathematical recreations, including knight tours on a chessboard. The second ... En savoir plus

    CHF 22.46

  • Media Poetry

    An International Anthology

    Modifié par Eduardo Kac ...
    The first international anthology to document a radically new poetry which takes language beyond the confines of the printed page into a non-linear world of digital interactivity and hyperlinkage. The work of the poets discussed in this book challenges even the innovations of experimental poetics. It embraces new technologies to explore a new syntax made of linear and non-linear animation, ... En savoir plus

    CHF 23.28