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It seems nobody has mentionned Gregory Chaitin[1] yet With good reason. The logician Torkel Franzen said it well in "Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide" [Cha
by bumbledraven 15y ago
It seems nobody has mentionned Gregory Chaitin[1] yet
With good reason. The logician Torkel Franzen said it well in "Gödel's Theorem: An Incomplete Guide" [Chapter 8, p 148]: ``Chaitin's claim to have discovered "the amazing fact that some mathematical statements are true for no reason" has no apparent content, but seems rather to be based on the general associations surrounding the word "random".''