A fount of fascinating ideas, the book bubbles along on the crest of Chaitin’s enthusiasm. His excessive keenness on bold text and exclamation marks can be irksome, but the way the narrative uses the discussion of Ω to tie together transcendental numbers, the halting problem and Gödel’s incompleteness theorems is compelling.
A fount of fascinating ideas, the book bubbles along on the crest of Chaitin’s enthusiasm. His excessive keenness on bold text and exclamation marks can be irksome, but the way the narrative uses the discussion of Ω to tie together transcendental numbers, the halting problem and Gödel’s incompleteness theorems is compelling.