{"product_id":"9781429952835","title":"Jack and the Aktuals, or, Physical Applications of Transfinite Set Theory","description":"\u003cp\u003eLike many other stories and novels by Rudy Rucker, “Jack and the Aktuals” is a wild and wooly dramatization of certain principles of higher mathematics, with added talking animals, sentient pencils, and orders-of-infinity nested within one another like Russian dolls. No description can ever encompass the mind-bending experience of reading a Rudy Rucker story.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAmong Rudy Rucker’s many novels are the Ware tetralogy \u003ci\u003e(Software,\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWetware\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eFreeware,\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eRealware);\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eWhite Light, Spacetime Donuts, Mathematicians in Love, \u003c\/i\u003eand\u003ci\u003e Postsingular.\u003c\/i\u003e His nonfiction includes such works as \u003ci\u003eGeometry, Relativity, and the Fourth Dimension \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Lifebox, the Seashell, and the Soul: What Gnarly Computation Taught Me About Ultimate Reality, the Meaning Of Life, and How To Be Happy.\u003c\/i\u003e He is the great-great-great grandson of the philosopher Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Tom Doherty Associates","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47153968251120,"sku":"9781429952835","price":0.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9781429952835_p0.jpg?v=1763749773","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9781429952835","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}