The Limits of Mathematics

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1. lioetersOct 2026
   The Limits of Mathematics: A Course on Information Theory and Limits of Formal Reasoning - Chaitin, Gregory

   https://ia801804.us.archive.org/35/items/A-Z_Library_G-K_Jos... (PDF)

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2. p4bl0Oct 2019
   Gregory Chaitin discusses elegance of programs in his book The limits of mathematics, which is a very good read. I wrote a review almost ten years ago here: https://p4bl0.net/shebang/the-limits-of-mathematics.html
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3. p4bl0Aug 2017
   It's not exactly a paper but I really liked "The Limits of Mathematics" by Chaitin. I wrote a blogpost about it a few years back (https://shebang.ws/the-limits-of-mathematics.html), I already submitted it to HN (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1725936).
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4. p4bl0Jun 2011
   Chaitin continuously impress me. The first thing I read from him was The Limits of Mathematics[1] and since then I must say that I'm a huge fan of his work.

   [1] http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1725936

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5. lispmDec 2013
   Having better programming tools is a useful goal. Writing applications is another one. Not all applications need advanced maths, though. In many Lisp applications many different kinds of maths have been necessary and used. All kinds of symbolic and numeric mathematics have been used. But Lisp has been also a topic of study and research - as it is also an application of symbolic mathematics. See for example Chaitin, The Limits of Mathematics. https://www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin/lm.html or the research on Scheme: http://library.readscheme.org .
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