The most critical attribute of human language is its unbounded combinatorial nature: smaller elements can be combined into larger structures on the basis of a grammatical system, resulting in a ...

Systems, the abstract structures used as theoretical concepts in operating of human mind are tried to be set up into a type — level hierarchy which seems to be a new step in continuing traditions of ...

Excerpted with permission from Our Mathematical Universe: My Quest for the Ultimate Nature of Reality, by Max Tegmark. Available from Random House/Knopf. Copyright ...

Abstract 248-dimensional map may unify the laws of nature. After 120 years of puzzling, mathematicians have mapped out the most complex abstract structure ever conceived, a 248-dimensional ...

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