num_pages: 324
description: This book contains in easily accessible form all the main ideas of the creator and principal architect of algorithmic information theory. This expanded second edition has added thirteen abstracts a 1988 Scientific American Article a transcript of a EUROPALIA 89 lecture an essay on biology and an extensive bibliography. Its new larger format makes it easier to read. Chaitin's ideas are a fundamental extension of those of Gdel and Turning and have exploded some basic assumptions of mathematics and thrown new light on the scientific method epistemology probability theory and of course computer science and information theory.
language: English
title: Information, Randomness and Incompleteness: Papers on Algorithmic Information Theory
publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company