Presents the story of Gregory Chaitin's account of his discovery of 'omega'. This work shows us that mathematics is as much art form as logic, as much science as pure reasoning, and sheds light on what we can ultimately hope to know about the universe and the very nature of life.

Vorwort
Now in paperback: one of the world's greatest mathematicians explains his revolutionary hypothesis about the enigma at the heart of maths: omega (?). 'Chaitin comes across as a kind of mathematical Richard Feynman, intuitive and high-spirited, irreverent and plain-spoken.' Peter Pesic, TLS

Autorentext
Gregory Chaitin works at New York IBM Watson Research Centre, and is a visiting professor in computer science at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He has written eight previous books on maths including Exploring Randomness and The Unknowable.