The unknowable / by Gregory J. Chaitin.
The unknowable / by Gregory J. Chaitin.
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Singapore ; New York : Springer, c1999.
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T0391858
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English
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vii, 122 p. ; 25 cm.
Contents
I. A Hundred Years of Controversy Regarding the Foundations of Mathematics -- II. LISP: A Formalism for Expressing Mathematical Algorithms -- III. Godel's Proof of his Incompleteness Theorem -- IV. Turing's Proof of the Unsolvability of the Halting Problem -- V. My Proof that You Can't Show that a L...
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Singapore ; New York : Springer, c1999.
Date Published
c1999.
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"This companion volume to Chaitin's "The Limits of Mathematics", also published by Springer, gives a historical survey of the work this century on the foundations of mathematics, in which the author was a major participant. "The Unknowable" is a readable and concrete introduction to Chaitin's ideas, and it includes a detailed explanation of the pro...
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The unknowable / by Gregory J. Chaitin.
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Springer series in discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 111-122).
Transferred from N511.3/63.
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c1999.
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T0391858
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74VvWLlDdM43
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ISBN
9814021725 (hardcover)
9789814021722 (hardcover)
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511.3
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991011980459702626
