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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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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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      Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd
      Publication Date: Publication Date: 31/10/2007
      ISBN13: 9789812770820, 978-9812770820
      ISBN10: 9812770828

      Description

      Book Synopsis
      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.

      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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