Information-Theoretic Incompleteness
by Gregory J. Chaitin
Publisher: World Scientific 1992
ISBN/ASIN: 9810236956
ISBN-13: 9789810236953
Number of pages: 238
Description:
In this mathematical autobiography, Gregory Chaitin presents a technical survey of his work and a non-technical discussion of its significance. The technical survey contains many new results, including a detailed discussion of LISP program size and new versions of Chaitin's most fundamental information-theoretic incompleteness theorems.
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