Metamaths - Couverture souple

Chaitin

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 184354525X ISBN 13 : 9781843545255

Editeur : Atlantic Books, 2007

Synopsis

One of the world's greatest mathematicians explains his revolutionary hypothesis about the enigma at the heart of maths: omega.

'Chaitin comes across as a kind of mathematical Richard Feynman, intuitive and high-spirited, irreverent and plain-spoken.' -- Peter Pesic, TLS

Meta Maths is Gregory Chaitin's exuberant account of his discovery of 'omega': the infinitely long, exquisitely complex and utterly incalculable representation of randomness and unknowability in mathematics. From Euclid to Gödel to Turing, Chaitin's infectious narrative guides us on a spellbinding journey through the historical advances in maths and science that led to his breakthrough discovery. Once there he takes us further, to the very frontiers of scientific thinking. Meta Maths shows that mathematics is as much art form as logic, as much science as pure reasoning, and sheds light on what we can ultimately hope to know about the universe and the very nature of life.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Gregory Chaitin works at the IBM Watson Research Centre in New York, and is a visiting professor in the computer science department of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is the author of eight previous books on mathematics including Exploring Randomness, The Unknowable and Meta Maths: The Quest for Omega published by Atlantic in 2006.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Atlantic Books
• Date d'édition: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 184354525X
• ISBN 13: 9781843545255
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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