George Spencer Brown

The most exquisitely elegant work in all of logic is a 147 page little book by George Spencer Brown called Laws of Form in which he constructs all of logic and set theory from nothing but the equivalent of a large parking lot and barricades. You imagine a big wide-open field and then start setting up ...

If wilful eccentricity and madness are two sides of the same coin, as John Dryden, the 17th-century poet and literary critic, suggested, George Spencer-Brown could wake up on a different side of that coin each day. To some he was a peerless mathematician who tackled some of the thorniest theoretical ...

George Spencer-Brown, who has died aged 93, described himself as a “mathematician, consulting engineer, psychologist, educational consultant and practitioner, consulting psychotherapist, author, and poet”. He also held world records for gliding, taught at Oxford, London and Cambridge universities, ...

Google is urging Windows, Mac and Linux users to update their Chrome browser to fix five security holes – two which rate as high severity. Google warned users of the vulnerabilities Wednesday as it released a new version, 50.0.2661.102, of the browser. The Chrome security holes were found by four bug ...