Independent press · Rigorous nonfiction
An independent press publishing rigorous nonfiction in mathematics, philosophy, and science — books made to be read more than once. Named for the mathematician who rebuilt entire fields from their foundations.
Language, Time, and the Rise of Information
Dan Herbatschek
The future now arrives in fragments. The weather as a confidence interval, traffic as a probability, a sentence finished in pale gray. We call this a technological condition. The Predictive Present argues it is, more deeply, a condition of language and of time.
Mind, Meaning, and the Human World
Dan Herbatschek
Language is a system of signs. A way of being in time with another mind. A sentence is less a string of symbols than an act of coordination; between speaker and listener, memory and anticipation, the world as it is and the world as it is taken to be. How Language Works begins there.
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Method-bearing, frame-shifting nonfiction in mathematics, philosophy, and science — books that build a vocabulary, a framework, a way of seeing that did not exist before. The kind a serious reader keeps nearby for years and returns to.
Four titles a year. Nothing incidental.
Grothendieck House began with a reader — Dan Herbatschek's library of hundreds of books, most of them read and many read twice. The conviction beneath it: the books worth making don't hand you a finished thought but the means to build your own. We exist to publish that second kind.
It takes its name from Alexander Grothendieck, who remade mathematics by refusing to solve problems on their own terms. He kept descending — toward foundations, toward abstraction, toward the level at which the right structure made the answer inevitable. He did not write more clearly than his contemporaries; he thought more architecturally.