The revolutions that Gregory Chaitin brought within the fields of science are well known. From his discovery of algorithmic information complexity to his work on Gödel's theorem, he has contributed deeply and expansively to such diverse fields.
This book attempts to bring together a collection of articles written by his colleagues, collaborators and friends to celebrate his work in a festschrift. It encompasses various aspects of the scientific work that Chaitin has accomplished over the years. Topics range from philosophy to biology, from foundations of mathematics to physics, from logic to computer science, and all other areas Chaitin has worked on.
It also includes sketches of his personality with the help of biographical accounts in some unconventional articles that will provide a rare glimpse into the personal life and nature of Chaitin.
Compared to the other books that exist along a similar vein, this book stands out primarily due to its highly interdisciplinary nature and its scope that will attract readers into Chaitin's world.
Contents: An Experiment in Autobiography (Gregory Chaitin)Unknowability in Mathematics, Biology and Physics (Gregory Chaitin)Conceptual Complexity and Algorithmic Information (Gregory Chaitin)Chaitin, The Thinker (Richardo Espinoza Lolas)Dropping In on Gottfried Leibniz (Stephen Wolfram)Literature and Mathematics: Jorge Luis Borges' Library and Gregory Chaitin's Omega (Arturo Sangalli)Selva Selvaggia (Francisco Antonio Doria)Rules, Networks, and Evolution: On Chaitin's Algorithmic Information Theory and the Threefold Complexity of the Law (Ugo Pagallo)Learning the Undecidable from Networked Systems (Felipe S Abrahão, Ítala M L D'Ottaviano, Klaus Wehmuth, Francisco Antonio Doria and Artur Ziviani)Limits of Computation and Physical Reality (Apostolos Syropoulos)Compression is Comprehension and the Unreasonable Effectiveness of Digital Computation in the Natural World (Hector Zenil)On Information, Quanta, and Context (J Acacio de Barros)A New Bifurcation in the Universe (A E S Hartmann and M Novello)From the Origins of Life to the Nature of Intelligence (Sara Imari Walker and Paul C W Davies)Meta+phenomenology: Primer Towards a Phenomenology Formally Based on Algorithmic Information Theory and Metabiology (Michael Winter)Metabiology, Interdisciplinarity and the Human Self-image (Virginia Maria Fontes Gonçalves Chaitin)Incompleteness and Complexity in Economic Theory (J Barkley Rosser, Jr)The Incompletability of Markets (Sami Al-Suwailem)
Readership: Students, professors and researchers in mathematics, computer science, biology, philosophy and physics. And readers who are interested in the scientific works and biographical accounts of Gregory Chaitin.Complexity;Meta-Biology;Gregory Chaitin;Gödel;Leibniz0Key Features:Features articles by luminaries like Paul Davies, Stephen Wolfram, John Casti, etc.Contains personal accounts of his life from his family members
