Gregory Chaitin

Argentinian mathematician and computer scientist · United States · On the map · Academics · Born 1947 · age 78

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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According 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...
February 2016 · "Doing Mathematics Differently" Inference (Feb 2016) Vol. 2, No. 1. Ref: Hermann Weyl, The Open World: Three Lectures on the Metaphysical, Own words
Why do I think that Turing's paper "On computable numbers" is so important?
2005 · "Epistemology as information theory: From Leibniz to Omega." arXiv preprint math/0506552 (2005). p. 3, Own words
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 ...
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