Metamaths - Hardcover

Chaitin, Gregory

 
9781843545248: Metamaths
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 1843545241 ISBN 13: 9781843545248
Verlag: Atlantic Books, 2006

Inhaltsangabe

One of the world's greatest mathematicians explains his revolutionary hypothesis about the enigma at the heart of maths: omega.

'Chaitin comes across as a kind of mathematical Richard Feynman, intuitive and high-spirited, irreverent and plain-spoken.' -- Peter Pesic, TLS

Meta Maths is Gregory Chaitin's exuberant account of his discovery of 'omega': the infinitely long, exquisitely complex and utterly incalculable representation of randomness and unknowability in mathematics. From Euclid to Gödel to Turing, Chaitin's infectious narrative guides us on a spellbinding journey through the historical advances in maths and science that led to his breakthrough discovery. Once there he takes us further, to the very frontiers of scientific thinking. Meta Maths shows that mathematics is as much art form as logic, as much science as pure reasoning, and sheds light on what we can ultimately hope to know about the universe and the very nature of life.

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Gregory Chaitin works at the IBM Watson Research Centre in New York, and is a visiting professor in the computer science department of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of eight previous books on mathematics including Exploring Randomness, The Unknowable and Meta Maths: The Quest for Omega published by Atlantic in 2006.

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Verlag
Atlantic Books
Erscheinungsdatum
2006
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
1843545241
ISBN 13 
9781843545248
Einband
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Anzahl der Seiten
224
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