ca314159 (ca314159@bestweb.net)
Mon, 15 Mar 1999 06:14:21 -0800
Chaitin's latest book on The Limits of Mathematics:
"In a nutshell, Gödel discovered incompleteness,
Turing discovered uncomputability, and I discovered
randomness---that's the amazing fact that some
mathematical statements are true for no reason,
they're true by accident. There can be no
``theory of everything,'' at least not in mathematics.
Maybe in physics!"
http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~chaitin/unknowable/
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