The Limits of Mathematics
by Gregory J. Chaitin · first published 1997
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Gregory Chaitin discusses elegance of programs in his book The limits of mathematics, which is a very good read. I wrote a review almost ten years ago here: https://p4bl0.net/shebang/the-limits-of-mathematics.html
on “Ask HN: What is the most beautiful piece of code you've ever read?” ↗Chaitin continuously impress me. The first thing I read from him was The Limits of Mathematics[1] and since then I must say that I'm a huge fan of his work. [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1725936
on “Gregory Chaitin: To a mathematical theory of evolution and biological creativity” ↗It's not exactly a paper but I really liked "The Limits of Mathematics" by Chaitin. I wrote a blogpost about it a few years back (https://shebang.ws/the-limits-of-mathematics.html), I already submitted it to HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1725936).
on “Ask HN: What is your favorite CS paper?” ↗The Limits of Mathematics: A Course on Information Theory and Limits of Formal Reasoning - Chaitin, Gregory https://ia801804.us.archive.org/35/items/A-Z_Library_G-K_Jos... (PDF)
on “How to Formalize All of Mathematics” ↗…All kinds of symbolic and numeric mathematics have been used. But Lisp has been also a topic of study and research - as it is also an application of symbolic mathematics. See for example Chaitin, The Limits of Mathematics. https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin/lm.html or the research on Scheme: http://library.readscheme.org .
on “The Mathematical Hacker (2012)” ↗