Exploring Randomness

by Gregory Chaitin

Book Overview

This essential companion to Chaitin's successful books The Unknowable and The Limits of Mathematics, presents the technical core of his theory of program-size complexity. The two previous volumes are more concerned with applications to meta-mathematics. LISP is used to present the key algorithms and to enable computer users to interact with the authors proofs and discover for themselves how they work. The LISP code for this book is available at the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1852334177
• ISBN13: 9781852334178
• Release Date: December 2000
• Publisher: Springer
• Length: 164 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 6.1" x 9.2"