Format:
1 online resource (944 pages)
ISBN:
9789811247439
Series Statement:
Series On Knots And Everything v.72
Content:
Intro -- Contents -- Foreword -- Preface -- Introduction -- Chapter 1. Laws of Form: A Survey of Ideas -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Finding Distinction -- 3. From Mathematics to Laws of Form -- 4. A Sign in Space -- 5. Finding Primary Arithmetic -- 6. Finding Logic -- 7. Re-entry and a Sign for Itself -- 8. Finding Mathematics - The Theory of Numbers -- 9. Continued Fractions, Re-entry and Real Numbers -- 10. Logic and Real Numbers -- 11. Finding Ordinals and Imaginary Value -- 12. Re-Entry, Parentheticals and the Enumeration of Expressions -- 13. Discrimination and Fermions -- 14. Laws of Form and Fundamental Physics -- 15. Modulators -- 16. Boundaries and the Calculus of Idemposition -- 17. Epilogue -- Acknowledgments -- Bibliography -- Chapter 2. The Calculus of Indications: A Candidate for the Pregeometry of Spacetime? -- 1. Introduction -- 2. What Is Pregeometry? -- 3. The Case for Pregeometry -- 4. The Inadequacy of Geometry -- 5. Difficulty in Establishing the Nature of Pregeometry -- 6. How to Proceed? -- 7. Pregeometry as a Simple Structure -- 8. Beauty -- 9. Pregeometry as the Propositional Calculus -- 10. Pregeometry as a Discrete Space -- 11. Pregeometry as a Background-Free Space -- 12. Quantum Mechanics -- 13. Particle-Wave Duality -- 14. Non-locality and Entanglement -- 15. Principle of Unity -- 16. Causal Structure -- 17. Other Approaches -- 18. Summary: Why the Calculus is a Strong Candidate for the Pregeometry of Spacetime -- 19. Concluding Remarks -- Bibliography -- Chapter 3. Laws of Form and the Riemann Hypothesis -- 1. Introduction to the Riemann Hypothesis -- 2. From the Prime Number Theorem to the Möbius Reformulation of RH -- 3. Appendix 9 of "Laws of Form" and Denjoy's Probabilistic Interpretation (Edwards, 1974) -- Appendix ±1 - The Spencer-Brown Möbius Cascade -- Appendix 0 - A Möbius and Liouville Excursion.
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Additional Edition:
ISBN 9789811247422
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9789811247422
Language:
English
Author information:
Kauffman, Louis H. 1945-
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