Meta Math!: The Quest For Omega - Rilegato

Chaitin, Gregory

 
9780375423130: Meta Math!: The Quest For Omega
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ISBN 10: 0375423133 ISBN 13: 9780375423130
Casa editrice: Pantheon Books, 2005

Sinossi

In Meta Math!, Gregory Chaitin, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, leads us on a spellbinding journey of scientific discovery and illuminates the process by which he arrived at his groundbreaking theories.

All of science is based on mathematics, but mathematicians have become painfully aware that math itself has serious limitations. This notion was first revealed in the work of two giants of twentieth-century mathematics: Kurt Gödel and Alan Turing. Now their successor, Gregory Chaitin, digs even deeper into the foundations of mathematics, demonstrating that mathematics is riddled with randomness, enigmas, and paradoxes.

Chaitin’s revolutionary discovery, the Omega number, is an exquisitely complex representation of unknowability in mathematics. His investigations shed light on what, ultimately, we can know about the universe and the very nature of life. But if unknowability is at the core of Chaitin’s theories, the great gift of his book is its completely engaging knowability. In an infectious and enthusiastic narrative, Chaitin introduces us to his passion for mathematics at its deepest and most philosophical level, and delineates the specific intellectual and intuitive steps he took toward the discovery of Omega. In the final analysis, he shows us that mathematics is as much art as logic, as much experimental science as pure reasoning. And by the end, he has helped us to see and appreciate the art––and the sheer beauty––in the science of math.

In Meta Math!, Gregory Chaitin takes us to the very frontiers of scientific thinking. It is a thrilling ride.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Gregory Chaitin works at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Westchester County, New York, and is a visiting professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The author of eight previous books on mathematics, he lives in New York.

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Editore
Pantheon Books
Data di pubblicazione
2005
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
0375423133
ISBN 13 
9780375423130
Rilegatura
Copertina rigida
Numero di pagine
220
Contatto del produttore
non disponibile
Persona responsabile
non disponibile

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9781400077977: Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega

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ISBN 10:  1400077974 ISBN 13:  9781400077977
Casa editrice: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2006
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