The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

The Rigor of Angels: Borges, Heisenberg, Kant, and the Ultimate Nature of Reality

A poet, a physicist, and a philosopher explored the greatest enigmas in the universe—the nature of free will, the strange fabric of the cosmos, the true limits of the mind—and each in their own way un…

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