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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$110 / £64

     


    468pp    Pub. date: Oct 2007  
    ISBN:   978-981-277-083-7(ebook)
    981-277-083-6(ebook)
       US$143

     


     

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