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BL
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| Record Number
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1045284
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b799654
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| Main Entry
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Chaitin, Gregory J.
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| Title & Author
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Meta math! : : the quest for omega /\ Gregory Chaitin.
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| Edition Statement
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1st ed.
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| Publication Statement
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New York :: Pantheon Books,, 2005.
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xiv, 220 pages :: illustrations ;; 24 cm
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| ISBN
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0375423133
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: 9780375423130
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| Bibliographies/Indexes
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 204-206) and index.
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| Contents
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Three strange loves: Primes/Gödel/LISP -- Digital information: DNA/Software/Leibniz -- Intermezzo -- The labyrinth of the continuum -- Complexity, randomness & incompleteness.
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| Abstract
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Explores the enigmas, paradoxes, and random qualities that exist within the field of mathematics and discusses the author's groundbreaking discovery of the Omega number, a complex representation of unknowability.
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Computational complexity.
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Machine theory.
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Stochastic processes.
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Computational complexity.
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Machine theory.
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Metamathematics.
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Stochastic processes.
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| Dewey Classification
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510
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| LC Classification
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QA276.C435 2005
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