Laws of Form: Commentary and Remembrance for George Spencer-Brown

This volume is a collection of articles on themes related to the book Laws of Form by George Spencer-Brown. Laws of Form was first published in 1969 and brings forth a new articulation of the foundations of thought. In Laws of Form we have a mathematical formalism based on one symbol and an approach to the question how the world would appear if a distinction could be drawn. Laws of Form does not answer the question how, given nothing as a beginning, a distinction can, indeed must, inevitably take place. This second question must, in its own structure, be left to each individual thinker. Nevertheless, Laws of Form , beautifully written and content free (form is emptiness, emptiness is form) is the most powerful mathematical text on the edge of nothing that has been produced since Euclid's Elements . These papers are a tribute to Spencer-Brown and his singular achievement.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1845409809
• ISBN13: 9781845409807
• Release Date: April 2018
• Publisher: Imprint Academic (Ips)
• Length: 266 Pages
• Weight: 1.04 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 7.0" x 10.0"