DESIGN OF A LANGUAGE FOR COSMIC INTERCOURSE by Freudenthal, H. LINCOS, reviewed by Frederick I. Ordway III

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DESIGN OF A LANGUAGE FOR COSMIC INTERCOURSE

by Freudenthal, H. LINCOS,

Amsterdam, 1960: North-Holland Publishing Co., 224 pages, $6.00

The author has tried to design a language for cosmic intercommunications to be called Lincos (Lingua Cosmica), which could be deciphered by mentally humanlike receivers in remote worlds. It is proposed that radio signals be used as the linguistic vehicle. The author has developed a vocabulary of a few hundred words; logistic syntax has been used and expanded as necessary. The book is Part I of an effort that is to be continued. After a long introduction, four chapters follow on mathematics, time, behaviour, and space, motion, mass. The book was published as part of the "Studies in Logic and the Foundations of Mathematics" (L. E. J. Brouwer, E. W. Beth and A. Heyting, eds).


Extracted from the 1962 Publication Annotated Bibliography of Space Science and Technology with an Astronomical Supplement - A History of Astronautical Book Literature 1931 - 1961. by Frederick I. Ordway III

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