Meta math! : the quest for omega / Gregory Chaitin.
Meta math! : the quest for omega / Gregory Chaitin.
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New York : Pantheon Books, 2005.
Date
2005.
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N510/238
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English
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xiv, 220 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Contents
Quotes by Leibniz/Galileo -- Franz Kafka : before the law -- 1. Introduction -- 2. Three strange loves : primes/Godel/LISP -- 3. Digital information : DNA/software/Leibniz -- 4. Intermezzo -- 5. The labyrinth of the continuum -- 6. Complexity, randomness & incompleteness -- 7. Conclusion -- Poem by...
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New York : Pantheon Books, 2005.
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New York (State)
Date Published
2005.
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"In Meta Math!, Gregory Chaitin leads us on a journey of scientific discovery and illuminates the process by which he arrived at his groundbreaking theories." "Chaitin's revolutionary discovery, the Omega number, is a complex representation of unknowability in mathematics. His investigations shed light on what, ultimately, we can know about the uni...
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Meta math! : the quest for omega / Gregory Chaitin.
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 204-206) and index.
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N510/238
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74VKmz8z3l3l
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKmz8z3l3l
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0375423133
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510
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991020570339702626
