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RANDOMNESS AND COMPLEXITY, FROM LEIBNIZ TO CHAITIN

edited by Cristian S Calude (University of Auckland, New Zealand)

Table of Contents (125k)
Preface (2,910k)
Chapter 1: On Random and Hard-to-Describe Numbers (902k)

The book is a collection of papers written by a selection of eminent authors from around the world in honour of Gregory Chaitin’s 60th birthday. This is a unique volume including technical contributions, philosophical papers and essays.


Contents:

  • On Random and Hard-to-Describe Numbers (C H Bennett)
  • The Implications of a Cosmological Information Bound for Complexity, Quantum Information and the Nature of Physical Law (P C W Davies)
  • What is a Computation? (M Davis)
  • A Berry-Type Paradox (G Lolli)
  • The Secret Number. An Exposition of Chaitin’s Theory (G Rozenberg & A Salomaa)
  • Omega and the Time Evolution of the n-Body Problem (K Svozil)
  • God's Number: Where Can We Find the Secret of the Universe? In a Single Number! (M Chown)
  • Omega Numbers (J-P Delahaye)
  • Some Modern Perspectives on the Quest for Ultimate Knowledge (S Wolfram)
  • An Enquiry Concerning Human (and Computer!) [Mathematical] Understanding (D Zeilberger)
  • and other papers


Readership: Computer scientists and philosophers, both in academia and industry.

468pp Pub. date: Oct 2007
ISBN 978-981-277-082-0
981-277-082-8
US$88 / £48


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