All and Nothing: A Digital Apocalypse

by Dirk Höfer and Martin Burckhardt

Book Overview

Why 1 = presence and 0 = absence and the digital world formula is x = xn an exploration of meaning in a universe of infinite replication.

In the beginning was the Zero, and the Zero was with God, and God was the One.
--All and Nothing

In 1854, the British mathematician George Boole presented the idea of a universe the elements of which could be understood in terms of the logic of absence and presence: 0 and 1,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0262534258
• ISBN13: 9780262534253
• Release Date: October 2017
• Publisher: MIT Press
• Length: 104 Pages
• Weight: 0.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.3" x 4.5" x 7.1"
• Age Range: 18 years and up
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher