This collection of essays, written between 1970 and 2007, provides a window into one of the most interesting minds rnin maths. Aged 15, Gregory Chaitin defined the complexity of a number as the length of the shortest computer program necessary to generate it -something that can never be known for sure - and founded a whole field of mathematics on this paradox. The results impinge on fundamental questions such as "What are the limits of what we can know?"
展开▼
