[time 19] Chaitin's latest book


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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