Great Circle of Mysteries

Mikhail Leonidovich Gromov is a French-Russian mathematician. He is a Professor at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Scientifiques and New York University. During his outstanding career he has received many honors and prizes; most recently he was awarded the Abel Prize "for his revolutionary contributions to geometry." He is a prolific author with more than 150 scientific publications including 8 books.

Beautiful Elsewhere.- Science.- Numbers.- Laws.- Truth.- Life.- Evolution.- Brain.- Mind.- Mysteries Remain.- Ergo Project. Universality, Simplicity and Ergo Brain.-  Freedom, Curiosity, Interesting Signals and Goal Free Learning.-  Information, Prediction and a Bug on the Leaf.- Stones and Goals.- Ego, Ergo, Emotions and Ergo-Moods.- Common Sense, Ergo Ideas and Ergo Logic.- Ergo in the Minds.- Language and Languages.- Meaning of Meaning.- Play, Humour and Art.- Ergo in Science.- Unreasonable Men and Alternative Histories.- Mathematics and is Limits.- Numbers, Symmetries and Categories.- Logic and Illusion of Rigor.- Infinte inside, Finite outside.- Small, Large, Inaccessible.- Probability: Particles, Symmetries, Languages.- Signal Flows from the World to the Brain.- Characteristic Features of Linguistic Signals.- Understanding Structures and the Structure of Understanding.- Sixteen Rules of Ergo-Learner.- Learning to Understand Languages: from Libraries to Dictionaries.- Libraries, Strings, Annotations and Colors.- Teaching and Grading.- Atoms of Structures: Units, Similarities, Co-functionalities, Reductions.- Fragmentation, Segmentation and Formation of Units.- Presyntactic Morphisms, Syntactic Categories and Branched Entropy.- Similarities and Classifcations, Trees and Coordinatizations.- Clustering, Biclustering and Coclustering.- Bibliography. 

"The book presents a wealth of knowledge with many fascinating quotes and stories illustrated by beautiful pictures. It gives as such a lot of inspiration and explores the kind of mathematics needed to understand ergo brains. If you expect an entertaining and educating, but also technical book on modern science and mathematics, in particular in understanding the mind then this book fills the bill." (Manfred Kerber, zbMATH 1433.00004, 2020)