One of the world's greatest mathematicians explains his
revolutionary hypothesis about the enigma at the heart of maths:
omega. 'Chaitin comes across as a kind of mathematical Richard
Feynman, intuitive and high-spirited, irreverent and plain-spoken.'
-- Peter Pesic, TLS Meta Maths is Gregory Chaitin's exuberant
account of his discovery of 'omega': the infinitely long,
exquisitely complex and utterly incalculable representation of
randomness and unknowability in mathematics. From Euclid to Goedel
to Turing, Chaitin's infectious narrative guides us on a
spellbinding journey through the historical advances in maths and
science that led to his breakthrough discovery. Once there he takes
us further, to the very frontiers of scientific thinking. Meta
Maths shows that mathematics is as much art form as logic, as much
science as pure reasoning, and sheds light on what we can
ultimately hope to know about the universe and the very nature of
life.
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