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This reminds me of Frederik Pohl's [1] book The Gold at Starbow's End, in which Gödelization [2] is used to compress a huge message into a very short one. Ther
by EdwardCoffin 12y ago
This reminds me of Frederik Pohl's [1] book The Gold at Starbow's End, in which Gödelization [2] is used to compress a huge message into a very short one. There's a brief description of that part of the book at MathFiction [3]
[1] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik_Pohl http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frederik_Pohl
[2] http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Gödelization http://www.encyclopediaofmath.org/index.php/Gödelization
[3] http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumber=mf1033 http://kasmana.people.cofc.edu/MATHFICT/mfview.php?callnumbe...