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Interesting talk on Foundations of Math
« on: Oct 30th, 2003, 10:42pm » |
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See this web page for a transcript of the lecture "A Century of Controversy over the Foundations of Mathematics" by Gregory Chaitin.
http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~chaitin/lowell.html
It's quite accessible, and should be interesting to a lot of us who've wrestled on these forums with logical paradoxes, discussions about infinity, computational complexity, etc. It really clarified for me some connections that I felt existed but didn't quite understand, such as between the halting problem and Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
Chaitin also has other material at this level on his web site. I've only explored a little of it so far.
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