The Limits of Mathematics: A Course of Information Theory and the Limits of Formal Reasoning

  • Authors:

  • Gregory J. Chaitin

  • Affiliations:

  • -

  • Venue:
  • The Limits of Mathematics: A Course of Information Theory and the Limits of Formal Reasoning
  • Year:
  • 1998

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Abstract

From the Publisher:This book presents the final version of Chaitin's course on the limits of mathematical reasoning. This course uses algorithmic information theory to show that mathematics has serious limitations, and features a new more didactic approach to algorithmic information theory using LISP and Mathematica software. The thesis of the book is that the incompleteness phenomenon discovered by Godel is much more widespread and serious than hitherto suspected.