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You will like The limits of mathematics by Gregory Chaitin. An old review I did: http://shebang.ws/the-limits-of-mathematics.html http://shebang.ws/the-limits-
by p4bl0 10y ago
You will like The limits of mathematics by Gregory Chaitin.
An old review I did: http://shebang.ws/the-limits-of-mathematics.html http://shebang.ws/the-limits-of-mathematics.html
- pjungwir 10y agoThanks, I enjoyed your review! This article calls Ramanujan an "experimental" mathematician: https://backchannel.com/who-was-ramanujan-83b4d5b05665 https://backchannel.com/who-was-ramanujan-83b4d5b05665 Also Prime Obsession by John Derbyshire kind of describes Riemann in similar terms: working via playful exploration and intuition. It seems like the complex zeros of his equation are a practical example of "is it random?" and truths that "just are for no reason."