Information and randomness: An algorithmic perspective (Monographs on theoretical computer science)

Calude, Cristian

ISBN 10: 3540574565 / ISBN 13: 9783540574569

Published by Springer-Verlag, 1994

About this Item

8vo (24 cm), XVI, 210 pp. Laminated boards. ""Algorithmic information theory (AIT) is the result of putting Shannon's information theory and Turing's computability theory into a cocktail shaker and shaking vigorously", says G.J. Chaitin, one of the fathers of this theory of complexity and randomness, which is also known as Kolmogorov complexity. It is relevant for logic (new light is shed on Gödel's incompleteness results), physics (chaotic motion), biology (how likely is life to appear and evolve?), and metaphysics (how ordered is the universe?). This book, benefiting from the author's research and teaching experience in Algorithmic Information Theory (AIT), should help to make the detailed mathematical techniques of AIT accessible to a much wider audience." (from the blurb).

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Information and randomness: An algorithmic perspective (Monographs on theoretical computer science)
• Publisher: Springer-Verlag
• Publication Date: 1994
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 3540574565
• ISBN 13: 9783540574569
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: As New
• Seller catalogs:
  • Computer science
  • MATHEMATICAL SCIENCES

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Synopsis

"Algorithmic information theory (AIT) is the result of putting Shannon's information theory and Turing's computability theory into a cocktail shaker and shaking vigorously", says G.J. Chaitin, one of the fathers of this theory of complexity and randomness, which is also known as Kolmogorov complexity. It is relevant for logic (new light is shed on G"del's incompleteness results), physics (chaotic motion), biology (how likely is life to appear and evolve?), and metaphysics (how ordered is the universe?). This book, benefiting from the author's research and teaching experience in Algorithmic Information Theory (AIT), should help to make the detailed mathematical techniques of AIT accessible to a much wider audience.

Review

From the reviews of the second edition:

"This book, benefiting from the author’s research and teaching experience in Algorithmic Information Theory (AIT) should help to make the detailed mathematical techniques of AIT accessible to a much wider audience." (PHINEWS, Vol. 2, October 2002)