Follow this author to personalize your feed and get instant alerts. WHY FOLLOW? Update your preferences in Account Settings Personalized Content Follow this author to personalize your feed and get ...

THIS collection of essays, written between 1970 and 2007, provides a window into one of the most interesting minds in maths. Aged 15, Gregory Chaitin defined the complexity of a number as the length ...

Thanks for subscribing! Look out for your first newsletter in your inbox soon! The best of New York for free. Sign up for our email to enjoy New York without spending a thing (as well as some options ...

Greg Chaitin is an eminent mathematician, logician, computer scientist, and a pioneer of metabiology. Greg Chaitin is an eminent mathematician, logician, computer scientist, and a pioneer of ...

If the World Science Festival’s panel on string theory tackled the question of whether the math behind it could be a reliable guide to reality, its panel on the Limits of Understanding seemed to ...

Ideas on complexity and randomness originally suggested by Gottfried W. Leibniz in 1686, combined with modern information theory, imply that there can never be a "theory of everything" for all of ...

I am horrified and appalled by Gregory Chaitin’s review of How Mathematicians Think by William Byers (28 July, p 49). To say that Euler had “never heard of the notion of mathematical rigour” suggests ...