Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega

Chaitin, Gregory

ISBN 10: 1400077974 / ISBN 13: 9781400077977

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (edition ), 2006

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega
• Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group (edition )
• Publication Date: 2006
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1400077974
• ISBN 13: 9781400077977
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Gregory Chaitin, one of the world’s foremost mathematicians, leads us on a spellbinding journey, illuminating the process by which he arrived at his groundbreaking theory.

Chaitin’s revolutionary discovery, the Omega number, is an exquisitely complex representation of unknowability in mathematics. His investigations shed light on what we can ultimately know about the universe and the very nature of life. In an infectious and enthusiastic narrative, Chaitin delineates the specific intellectual and intuitive steps he took toward the discovery. He takes us to the very frontiers of scientific thinking, and helps us to appreciate the art—and the sheer beauty—in the science of math.

About the Author

Gregory Chaitin works at the IBM Thomas J. Watson Research Center in Westchester County, New York, and is a visiting professor in the Computer Science Department of the University of Auckland, New Zealand. The author of eight previous books on mathematics, he lives in New York.