| Information, Randomness and Incompleteness: Papers on Algorithmic Information Theory (2nd Edition) Revised Edition Contributor(s): Chaitin, Gregory J. (Editor) |
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ISBN: 9810201540 ISBN-13: 9789810201548 Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company OUR PRICE: $123.50 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: January 1990 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Mathematics | Logic - Computers | Computer Science |
| Dewey: 511.3 |
| LCCN: 89077617 |
| Series: World Scientific Computer Science |
| Physical Information: 324 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: This book contains in easily accessible form all the main ideas of the creator and principal architect of algorithmic information theory. This expanded second edition has added thirteen abstracts, a 1988 Scientific American Article, a transcript of a EUROPALIA 89 lecture, an essay on biology, and an extensive bibliography. Its new larger format makes it easier to read. Chaitin's ideas are a fundamental extension of those of G del and Turning and have exploded some basic assumptions of mathematics and thrown new light on the scientific method, epistemology, probability theory, and of course computer science and information theory. |