From: christophe delriviere (darkmichet@bigfoot.com)
Date: Fri Jan 01 1999 - 04:26:46 MST
Stardrive9@aol.com wrote:
> You probably saw the collection of short stories by the great Argentinean
> fabulist Jorge Luis Borges.
Yes, I recognize the name now ;)
> Buy it only if you are interested in
> nonscientific but highly imaginative literary fiction. Kathryn might like it,
> based on her post. I believe El Aleph refers to Arabic alchemical processes.
> Why Anders chose it for his site? I've wondered about that myself.
> Anders...?
I guess it's because it appears several times in the books of David Zindell,
perhaps it's not the only reason ?
Where Zindell has found this term ;)?
I have just made a quick search with Amazon...
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/generic-quicksearch-query/002-1997407-1009030
It seems somewhat related to judaism...
Two other titles have retained my attention :
The Aleph Weaver : Biblical, Kabbalistic and Judaic Elements in Borges
Edna Aizenberg / Hardcover / Published 1985
Affine Representations of Grothendieck Groups and Applications to Rickart
C-Algebras and Aleph O-Continuous Regular Rings Vol 234
K. R. Goodearl / Paperback / Published 1980
I certainly believe the second one to be more significative, Zindell Being a
mathematician if i remember well. So perhaps a little search on mathematical
resources on the net could quickly give the information needed ;)
Delriviere
Christophe
PS :
HAPPY NEW YEAR TO EVERYBODY !!! ;))
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