Information, Randomness And Incompleteness: Papers On Algorithmic Information Theory (2nd Edition): 8 (World Scientific Series In Computer Science) - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 9810201540 ISBN 13: 9789810201548

Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd, 1990

Synopsis

This book contains in easily accessible form all the main ideas of the creator and principal architect of algorithmic information theory. This expanded second edition has added thirteen abstracts, a 1988 Scientific American Article, a transcript of a EUROPALIA 89 lecture, an essay on biology, and an extensive bibliography. Its new larger format makes it easier to read. Chaitin's ideas are a fundamental extension of those of Gödel and Turning and have exploded some basic assumptions of mathematics and thrown new light on the scientific method, epistemology, probability theory, and of course computer science and information theory.

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This book contains in easily accessible form all the main ideas of the creator and principal architect of algorithmic information theory. This expanded second edition has added thirteen abstracts, a 1988 Scientific American Article, a transcript of a EUROPALIA 89 lecture, an essay on biology, and an extensive bibliography. Its new larger format makes it easier to read. Chaitin's ideas are a fundamental extension of those of G del and Turning and have exploded some basic assumptions of mathematics and thrown new light on the scientific method, epistemology, probability theory, and of course computer science and information theory.

Edition details

• Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
• Publication date: 1990
• ISBN 10: 9810201540
• ISBN 13: 9789810201548
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Edition number: 2
• Number of pages: 324
• Editor: Chaitin Gregory J