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Author Chaitin, Gregory J.

Title Exploring randomness / Gregory J. Chaitin
Published London ; New York : Springer, [2001]
©2001

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Description x, 164 pages ; 25 cm
Series Discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science
Discrete mathematics and theoretical computer science.
Contents Machine derived contents note: Introduction: Historical Introduction. What is LISP? Why do I like it? How to Program my Universal Turing Machine in LISP.- Program Size: A Self-Delimiting Turing Machine considered as a Set of (Program, Output) Pairs. How to Construct Self-delimiting Turing Machines: The Kraft Inequality. The Connection Between Program-Size Complexity and Algorithmic Probability. The Basic Result on Relative Complexity.- Randomness: Theoretical Interlude - What is Randomness? My definitions. Proof that Martin-Lf̲ Randomness is Equivalent to Martin-Lf̲ Randomness. Proof that Solovay Randomness is Equivalent to Strong Chaitin Randomness.- Future Work: Extending AIT to the Size of Programs for Computing Infinite Sets and to Computations with Oracles. Postscript - Letter to a Young Reader
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references
Subject Computational complexity.
Computer science -- Mathematics.
LISP (Computer program language)
Machine theory.
LC no. 00052652
ISBN 1852334177