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Exploring RANDOMNESS (Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 2001)

Part of the Discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science series
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In The Unknowable I use LISP to compare my work on incompleteness with that of G6del and Turing, and in The Limits of Mathematics I use LISP to discuss my work on incompleteness in more detail.

In this book we'll use LISP to explore my theory of randomness, called algorithmic information theory (AIT). And when I say "explore" I mean it! This book is full of exercises for the reader, ranging from the mathematical equivalent oftrivial "fin­ ger warm-ups" for pianists, to substantial programming projects, to questions I can formulate precisely but don't know how to answer, to questions that I don't even know how to formulate precisely!

I really want you to follow my example and hike offinto the wilder­ ness and explore AIT on your own!

You can stay on the trails that I've blazed and explore the well-known part of AIT, or you can go off on your own and become a fellow researcher, a colleague of mine!

One way or another, the goal of this book is to make you into a participant, not a passive observer of AlT.

In other words, it's too easy to just listen to a recording of AIT, that's not the way to learn music.

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Springer London Ltd
1447110854 / 9781447110859
Paperback / softback
511.3
17/10/2012
United Kingdom
164 pages, X, 164 p.
155 x 235 mm