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Argentinian mathematician and computer scientist

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Gregory John Chaitin is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist. His work was foundational to the development of algorithmic information theory, and has been influential on metamathematics.

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Gregory Chaitin
said · 2005
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Why do I think that Turing's paper "On computable numbers" is so important?

"Epistemology as information theory: From Leibniz to Omega." arXiv preprint math/0506552 (2005). p. 3

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Gregory Chaitin
said · Feb 2016
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[A]ccording to Weyl, complexity is essential in understanding the concept of a law of nature. If laws of nature may be arbitrarily complex, he argued, the very concept...

"Doing Mathematics Differently" Inference (Feb 2016) Vol. 2, No. 1. Ref: Hermann Weyl, The Open World: Three Lectures on the Metaphysical

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Mathematicians are coming up with s that they use in their actual mathematical research. And these, like , I think is the name of one of them ...

(quote at 2:25 of 44:56 in video)

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Gregory John Chaitin is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist. His work was foundational to the development of algorithmic information theory, and has been influential on metamathematics. He independently discovered what is today known as algorithmic complexity simultaneously with Andrei Kolmogorov and Ray Solomonoff.

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