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    Cover of Exploring randomness

    Exploring randomness

    Gregory J. Chaitin · 2001

    Lisp & FunctionalComputer Science
    Open LibraryAmazon
    Stats for nerds
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    2people
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    What Hacker News says

    1. btillyJun 2025
      Anything by https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Chaitin, for example https://www.amazon.com/Exploring-Randomness-Discrete-Mathema....
      thread
    2. GregBuchholzNov 2016
      For anyone who might be misled, here are some links that people can use to judge for themselves how "crank" someone is:

      Professor Norman Wildberger's homepage:

      http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~norman/

      ...a paper by Wildberger tackling some of the issues in this thread:

      Set Theory: Should You Believe?

      http://web.maths.unsw.edu.au/~norman/papers/SetTheory.pdf

      Some interesting works by Gregory Chaitin

      Meta Math! The Quest for Omega

      https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0404335

      Exploring Randomness

      https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin/ait/

      How Real are Real Numbers?

      https://arxiv.org/abs/math/0411418

      People who are interested in ultrafinitism would also want to check out Doron Zeilberger

      http://www.math.rutgers.edu/~zeilberg/

      and

      Edward Nelson

      https://web.math.princeton.edu/~nelson/

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