Exploring RANDOMNESS

Exploring RANDOMNESS by Chaitin, Gregory J.. hardcover edition. ISBN: 9781852334178.

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 well 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 dont know how to answer, to questions that I dont 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 Ive 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, its too easy to just listen to a recording of AIT, thats not the way to learn music.