This book contains in easily accessible form all the main ideas of the creator and principal architect of algorithmic information theory. This expanded second edition has added thirteen abstracts, a 1988 SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN article, a transcript of a EUROPALIA 89 lecture, and an essay on biology. It
Information, randomness and incompleteness: Papers on algorithmic information theory
โ Scribed by Chaitin, Gregory J
- Publisher
- World Scientific
- Year
- 1987
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 282
- Series
- Series in computer science vol. 8
- Category
- Library
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โฆ Subjects
Computational complexity.;Machine theory.;Stochastic processes.
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