Meta Math! The Quest for Omega

Name: Meta Math! The Quest for Omega
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ISBN: 9781400077977

ISBN-10: 1400077974

ISBN-13: 9781400077977

Edition: N/A

Authors: Gregory Chaitin

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Gregory Chaitin, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, leads us on a spellbinding journey, illuminating the process by which he arrived at his groundbreaking theory. Chaitin’s revolutionary discovery, the Omega number, is an exquisitely complex representation of unknowability in mathematics. His investigations shed light on what we can ultimately know about the universe and the very nature of life. In an infectious and enthusiastic narrative, Chaitin delineates the specific intellectual and intuitive steps he took toward the discovery. He takes us to the very frontiers of scientific thinking, and helps us to appreciate the art—and the sheer beauty—in the science of math.

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List price: $17.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 11/14/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 240
Size: 5.24" wide x 7.96" long x 0.62" tall
Weight: 0.528
Language: English



Preface


Quotes by Leibniz/Galileo Franz Kafka


Before the Law One


Introduction Two


Three Strange Loves: Primes/Gï¿½del/LISP Three


Digital Information: DNA/Software/Leibniz Four


Intermezzo Five


The Labyrinth of the Continuum Six


Complexity, Randomness & Incompleteness Seven


Conclusion Poem



Poem



Further Reading


Appendix I


Appendix II


Index