Goedel's Way

Exploits into an undecidable world

af Gregory Chaitin

The G del incompleteness phenomenon is usually presented in textbooks as something that happens in the rarefied realms of mathematical logic, and has nothing to do with the real world. It is not so. Based on Chaitin 's groundbreaking work and on the da Costa-Doria results in physics, ecology, economics and computer science, this book shows that it can directly bear on the practice of science and perhaps on our everyday life. This new accessible book gives a new detailed and elementary proof of t... (Læs mere)