Gregory Chaitin

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The Quest for Omega

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Produktbeschreibung

Gregory Chaitin, one of the world's foremost mathematicians, leads us on a spellbinding journey, illuminating the process by which he arrived at his groundbreaking theory. Chaitin's revolutionary discovery, the Omega number, is an exquisitely complex representation of unknowability in mathematics. His investigations shed light on what we can ultimately know about the universe and the very nature of life. In an infectious and enthusiastic narrative, Chaitin delineates the specific intellectual and intuitive steps he took toward the discovery. He takes us to the very frontiers of scientific thinking, and helps us to appreciate the art—and the sheer beauty—in the science of math.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
• Seitenzahl: 240
• Erscheinungstermin: 26. November 2008
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780307488176
• Artikelnr.: 39249602

Autorenporträt

Gregory Chaitin works at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Westchester County, New York, and is a visiting professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The author of eight previous books on mathematics, he lives in New York.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Quotes by Leibniz/Galileo
Franz Kafka: Before the Law
One Introduction
Two Three Strange Loves: Primes/Gödel/LISP
Three Digital Information: DNA/Software/Leibniz
Four Intermezzo
Five The Labyrinth of the Continuum
Six Complexity, Randomness & Incompleteness
Seven Conclusion
Poem by Robert Chute
Poem by Marion Cohen
Further Reading
Appendix I
Appendix II
Index