Re:The Omega Man: "Math is built on randomness"
by yters on Thursday November 27, 2008 @10:18AM
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You're right, physics is just part of it, and some of the other links we've posted will give people a better grounding in his theory. Anyways, I appreciate your input, criticism is always welcome, especially from grad students. Best of luck on your studies:)
He shattered mathematics with a single number. And that was just for starters, says Marcus Chown.
Certainly reading about uncomputable numbers like Chaitin's constant is interesting reading, but my case is that this article is not the right start.
Anyways, foundations and information theory isn't my area of research, so I'll leave it at that.