Exploring RANDOMNESS PDF
by Gregory J. Chaitin
Part of the Discrete Mathematics and Theoretical Computer Science series
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.
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- Publication Date:06/12/2012
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