Gregory Chaitin-in-Ontario, How Real Are Real Numbers?
| Date | Tuesday September 22 2009 |
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| Time | 16:00 - 18:00 |
| Location | Wilfrid Laurier University PMC (Paul Martin Centre) |
| Contact | Ilias Kotsireas, ikotsire@wlu.ca |
| URL | http://www.mmcs.wlu.ca/csasm/csasm-talks/CSASM-sept2009-Gregory-Chaitin.html |
Gregory Chaitin, IBM T. J. Watson Research Center in New York, is the discoverer of the remarkable Omega number. His work on algorithmic information develops an idea in Leibniz’s “Discours de metaphysique” (1686), and has focused on randomness, on the limits of formal axiomatic reasoning, and, more recently, on metabiology. http://www.cs.umaine.edu/~chaitin. |
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