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§B§A collection of interviews with Greg Chaitin, the creator of Algorithmic Information Theory§§S§G. J. Chaitin is at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in New York. He has shown that God plays dice not only in quantum mechanics, but even in the foundations of mathematics, where Chaitin discovered mathematical facts that are true for no reason, that are true by accident. This book collects his most wide-ranging and non-technical lectures and interviews, and it will be of interest to anyone concerned with the philosophy of mathematics, with the similarities and differences between physics and mathematics, or with the creative process and mathematics as an art.

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Book category Books in English Mathematics & science Mathematics Philosophy of mathematics

• Full title: Conversations with a Mathematician
• Subtitle: Math, Art, Science and the Limits of Reason
• Author: Gregory J. Chaitin
• Language: English
• Binding: Hardback
• Number of pages: 158
• EAN: 9781852335496
• ISBN: 1852335491
• ID: 01435269
• Publisher: Springer London Ltd
• Weight: 426 g
• Dimensions: 237 × 164 × 15 mm
• Date of publishing: 28. November 2001

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