Thinking about Gödel and Turing : essays on complexity, 1970-2007 /

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Author / Creator:Chaitin, Gregory J.
Imprint:Singapore ; Hackensack, NJ : World Scientific, c2007.
Description:xix, 347 p. ; 26 cm.
Language:English
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Format: Print Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6651465
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ISBN:9812708952
9789812708953
9812708960 (pbk.)
9789812708960 (pbk.)
Notes:Includes bibliographical references.
Table of Contents:
  • Introductory note
  • On the difficulty of computations: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 1970
  • Information-theoretic computational complexity: IEEE Transactions on Information Theory, 1974
  • Randomness and mathematical proof: Scientific American, 1975
  • Godel's theorem and information: International Journal of Theoretical Physics, 1982
  • Randomness in arithmetic: Scientific American, 1988
  • Randomness in arithmetic and the decline & fall of reductionism in pure mathematics: Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, 1993
  • A century of controversy over the foundations of mathematics: Calude & Paun, Finite versus Infinite, 2000
  • A century of controversy over the foundations of mathematics: Complexity, 2000
  • Metamathematics and the foundations of mathematics: Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, 2002
  • Paradoxes of randomness: Complexity, 2002
  • Two philosophical applications of algorithmic information theory: Lecture Notes in Computer Science, 2003
  • On the intelligibility of the universe and the notions of simplicity, complexity and irreducibility: Hogrebe & Bromand, Grenzen und Grenzuberschreitungen, 2004
  • Leibniz, information, math & physics: Loffler & Weingartner, Wissen und Glauben, 2004
  • Leibniz, randomness & the halting probability; Mathematics Today, 2004
  • Complexity & Leibniz: Academic Internationale de Philosophie des Sciences, Tenerife, 2005
  • The limits of reason: Scientific American, 2006
  • How real are real numbers?: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 2006
  • Epistemology as information theory: From Leibniz to [omega] Collapse: Journal of Philosophical Research and Development, 2006
  • Is incompleteness a serious problem?: Lolli & Pagallo, La complessita di Godel, 2007
  • Speculations on biology, information & complexity: Bulletin of the European Association for Theoretical Computer Science, 2007
  • How much information can there be in a real number?: International Journal of Bifurcation and Chaos, 2007
  • The halting probability [Omega]: Irreducible complexity in pure mathematics: Milan Journal of Mathematics, 2007
  • The halting probability [Omega]: Concentrated creativity: Obrist, Formulas for the Twenty-First Century, 2007
  • List of publications
  • Acknowledgements
  • About the author