Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega

Category: Mathematics
Author: Gregory J. Chaitin
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by philipov   2017-08-19
I recommend Gregory Chaitin's book intended for a popular audience. It is short, and a good introduction to algorithmic information theory for non-mathematicians. Chaitin's Constant (Omega) is a non-computable number that is equivalent to the halting problem.

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