Overview

Mathematician Chaitin discovered the Omega number in his quest for representation of the unknowable in mathematics, as sought by Godel and Turing before him. His explication here is enthusiastic (lots of exclamation marks), chatty (about math's philosophical underpinnings), and personable (plenty of anecdotes). Clearly he's trying to engage readers joyfully in the subject matter; but general readers won't be able to follow him, and mathematically sophisticated readers could find the extraneous material distracting.

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Meta Maths is truly idiosyncratic. Informal, chatty and cerebral... it mixes mathematics with Chaitin's outlook on life and philosophy... Great fun. -- Alan Cane * Financial Times *

'[A] marvellous book... Disarmingly funny, but also thrillingly clear.' Stephen Poole, Guardian 'Maths' dark secret is out... Chaitin explains why omega, a number he discovered thirty years ago, has him convinced that maths is based on randomness.' Time 'Chaitin presents a vision of mathematics that is strikingly original in a book that is intensely personal... The book contains big, important ideas.' Chicago Tribune

Meta Maths is truly idiosyncratic. Informal, chatty and cerebral... it mixes mathematics with Chaitin's outlook on life and philosophy... Great fun. -- Alan Cane Financial Times

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Gregory Chaitin works at New York IBM Watson Research Centre, and is a visiting professor in computer science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has written eight previous books on maths including Exploring Randomness and The Unknowable.

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