Meta maths
by Gregory J. Chaitin · first published 2006
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…constant) I'd recommend Chaitin's book Meta Math: The Quest for Omega [1]. A fascinating book. Chaitin has also uploaded the full text (pdf) of the book to Arxiv.org [2]. [1] http://www.amazon.co.uk/Meta-Maths-Gregory-J-Chaitin/dp/1843... [2] http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404335
on “Digital physics” ↗Definitely. I'd recommend his book Meta Math: The Quest for Omega [1]. He posted the full text of the book on arXiv [2]. [1] https://www.amazon.co.uk/Meta-Maths-Gregory-J-Chaitin/dp/184... [2] http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404335
on “Gödel, Turing and Cantor: The Math” ↗I looked up NEST, written in C++ with Python. What, no LISP? When I hear AI being discussed LISP comes up fairly often. In the book "Meta Maths: The Quest for Omega" by Greg Chaitin, he mentions that Kurt Godel's work had a notation that was uncannily similar to LISP code. On the other paw he compares Turing's idea of code as something more akin…
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