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Brian Rotman

Brian Rotman is a member of the faculty of comparative studies at Ohio State University. He is the author of Signifying Nothing (about zero) and of Ad Infinitum: The Ghost in Turing’s Machine.

Selected bibliography

  • Mathematics as Sign: Writing, Imagining, Counting (2000)
  • Ad Infinitum. . . The Ghost in Turing’s Machine (1993)
  • Signifying Nothing: The Semiotics of Zero (1987)

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In the LRB archive

subscriber-only content Monobeing · 17 February 2005

Fortress Mathematica · 17 September 1998

  • The Man who Loved Only Numbers: The Story of Paul Erdös and the Search for Mathematical Truth by Paul Hoffman
  • Proofs from the Book by Martin Aigner and Günter Ziegler
  • A Beautiful Mind: Genius and Schizophrenia in the Life of John Nash by Sylvia Nasar

Not currently in the LRB archive

 not available in archive Pretty Good Privacy · 1 June 2000

  • The Code Book: The Science of Secrecy from Ancient Egypt to Quantum Cryptography by Simon Singh
  • In Code: A Mathematical Journey by Sarah Flannery
  • Privacy on the Line: The Politics of Wiretapping and Encryption by Whitfield Diffie and Susan Landau

 not available in archive Chef de Codage · 15 July 1999

  • Between Silk and Cyanide: The Story of SOE’s Code War by Leo Marks