Randomness is the true foundation of mathematics.
In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions that give you insight, t… - Gregory Chaitin
In a way, math isn't the art of answering mathematical questions, it is the art of asking the right questions, the questions that give you insight, t…
- Gregory Chaitin
A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself. - Gregory Chaitin
A random sequence is one that cannot be algorithmically compressed : the shortest description of a random sequence is simply the sequence itself.
Randomness is the true foundation of mathematics. - Gregory Chaitin
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly! - Gregory Chaitin
Bertrand Russell started off as a mathematician and then degenerated into a philosopher and finally into a humanist; he went downhill rapidly!
As Hamlet tells his friend, ``There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'' Well then, we must try har… - Gregory Chaitin
As Hamlet tells his friend, ``There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy.'' Well then, we must try har…
Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment! - Gregory Chaitin
Mathematical high culture collides with pop culture and all hell breaks loose! Harris takes us on a wild ride--never a dull moment!
I think logicians hate my work, they detest it! And I'm like pornography, I'm sort of an unmentionable subject in the world of logic, because my resu… - Gregory Chaitin
I think logicians hate my work, they detest it! And I'm like pornography, I'm sort of an unmentionable subject in the world of logic, because my resu…
So in the end it wasn't Gödel, it wasn't Turing, and it wasn't my results that are making mathematics go into an experimental mathematics direction, … - Gregory Chaitin
So in the end it wasn't Gödel, it wasn't Turing, and it wasn't my results that are making mathematics go into an experimental mathematics direction, …
But if we play it safe, the problem is that we may be losing out, and I believe we are. - Gregory Chaitin
But if we play it safe, the problem is that we may be losing out, and I believe we are.
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