Footnote:

This quotation is taken from Thomas P. Weissert, "Representation and Bifurcation: Borges's Garden of Chaos Dynamics", Hayles, N. Katherine (ed.) Chaos Bound: Orderly Disorder in Contemporary Literature and Science, Ithaca and London, Cornell UP (1990).

Similar points of view appear in:

• N. Katherine Hayles, The Cosmic Web. Scientific Field Models and Literary Strategies in the Twentieth Century, Ithaca and London, Cornell UP (1984).
• Floyd Merrell, Unthinking Thinking: Jorge Luis Borges, Mathematics, and the New Physics, West Lafayette, IN, Purdue University Press (1990).

For a thorough cirticism of this approach in reading Borges' texts, see Leo Corry, "Algunas Ideas Científicas en la Obra de Jorge Luis Borges y su Contexto Histórico", in Myrna Solotorevsky and Ruth Fine (eds.), Borges en Jerusalén, Frankfurt am Main, Vervuert/Iberoamericana (2003), pp. 49-74. [Electronically available at http://www.tau.ac.il/~corry/texts/articles/borges-ciencia.html]

Calculating the Limits of Poetic License:
Fictional Narrative and the History of Mathematics
Leo Corry - Tel Aviv University