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The book is a collection of papers written by a selection of eminent authors from around the world in honour of Gregory Chaitin's 60th birthday. This is a unique volume including technical contributions, philosophical papers and essays.

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Author:   Cristian S Calude (Univ Of Auckland, New Zealand)
Publisher:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Imprint:   World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
Dimensions:   Width: 16.10cm , Height: 2.90cm , Length: 23.10cm
Weight:   0.789kg
ISBN:  

9789812770820

ISBN 10:   9812770828
Pages:   468
Publication Date:   31 October 2007
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   Awaiting stock  
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Table of Contents

On Random and Hard-to-Describe Numbers (C H Bennett); The Implications of a Cosmological Information Bound for Complexity, Quantum Information and the Nature of Physical Law (P C W Davies); What is a Computation? (M Davis); A Berry-Type Paradox (G Lolli); The Secret Number. An Exposition of Chaitin's Theory (G Rozenberg & A Salomaa); Omega and the Time Evolution of the n-Body Problem (K Svozil); An Enquiry Concerning Human (and Computer!) [Mathematical] Understanding (D Zeilberger); Omega Numbers (J-P Delahaye); God's Number: Where Can We Find the Secret of the Universe? In a Single Number! (M Chown); The Quest for Universal Knowledge (S Wolfram); and other papers.

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