| Exploring Randomness Softcover Repri Edition Contributor(s): Chaitin, Gregory J. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1447110854 ISBN-13: 9781447110859 Publisher: Springer OUR PRICE: $113.99 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: October 2012 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Computers | Programming Languages - General - Mathematics | Probability & Statistics - General - Computers | Programming - Algorithms |
| Dewey: 511.3 |
| Series: Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science |
| Physical Information: 0.38" H x 6.14" W x 9.21" (0.57 lbs) 164 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: In The Unknowable I use LISP to compare my work on incompleteness with that of G6del and Turing, and in The Limits of Mathematics I use LISP to discuss my work on incompleteness in more detail. In this book we'll use LISP to explore my theory of randomness, called algorithmic information theory (AIT). And when I say "explore" I mean it This book is full of exercises for the reader, ranging from the mathematical equivalent oftrivial "fin- ger warm-ups" for pianists, to substantial programming projects, to questions I can formulate precisely but don't know how to answer, to questions that I don't even know how to formulate precisely I really want you to follow my example and hike offinto the wilder- ness and explore AIT on your own You can stay on the trails that I've blazed and explore the well-known part of AIT, or you can go off on your own and become a fellow researcher, a colleague of mine One way or another, the goal of this book is to make you into a participant, not a passive observer of AlT. In other words, it's too easy to just listen to a recording of AIT, that's not the way to learn music. |