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Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781400077977ISBN-10:1400077974UPC:9781400077977Book Category:Mathematics, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & Philosophy, Mathematical Analysis, MetaphysicsSize:7.94 x 5.28 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC7GJX4MXC
Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega
Gregory Chaitin, one of the world's foremost mathematicians, leads us on a spellbinding journey, illuminating the process by which he arrived at his groundbreaking theory. Chaitin's revolutionary discovery, the Omega number, is an exquisitely complex representation of unknowability in mathematics. His investigations shed light on what we can ultimately know about the universe and the very nature...
Language:EnglishPublisher:VintageISBN-13:9781400077977ISBN-10:1400077974UPC:9781400077977Book Category:Mathematics, PhilosophyBook Subcategory:History & Philosophy, Mathematical Analysis, MetaphysicsSize:7.94 x 5.28 x 0.63 inchesWeight:0.5512Product ID:SC7GJX4MXC
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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