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Gregory Chaitin is widely known for his work on metamathematics and for his discovery of the celebrated Omega number, which proved the fundamental unknowability of math. He is the author of many books on mathematics, including Meta Math! The Quest for Omega. Proving Darwin is his first book on biology. Chaitin was for many years at the IBM Watson Research Center in New York. The research described in this book was carried out at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, where Chaitin is now a professor. An Argentine-American, he is an honorary professor at the University of Buenos Aires and has an honorary doctorate from the National University of Cordoba, the oldest university in Argentina.

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	Meta Math!: The Quest for Omega 3.63 avg rating — 370 ratings — published 2005 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Proving Darwin: Making Biology Mathematical 2.88 avg rating — 188 ratings — published 2012 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The LIMITS of MATHEMATICS: A Course on Information Theory and the Limits of Formal Reasoning 3.93 avg rating — 27 ratings — published 1997 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	THINKING ABOUT GÖDEL AND TURING: Essays on Complexity, 1970-2007 4.33 avg rating — 24 ratings — published 2007 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Algorithmic Information Theory (Cambridge Tracts in Theoretical Computer Science, Series Number 1) 3.64 avg rating — 25 ratings — published 1987 — 11 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Unknowable really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 18 ratings — published 1999 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Conversations with a Mathematician: Math, Art, Science and the Limits of Reason 3.55 avg rating — 20 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Exploring Randomness 3.58 avg rating — 12 ratings — published 2001 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	INFORMATION, RANDOMNESS AND INCOMPLETENESS: PAPERS ON ALGORITHMIC INFORMATION THEORY (2ND EDITION) (World Scientific Computer Science) 4.50 avg rating — 6 ratings — published 1987 — 4 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Goedel's Way: Exploits into an undecidable world by Gregory Chaitin, Francisco Doria, Newton C.A. da Costa 4.40 avg rating — 5 ratings — published 2011 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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“Propongo che si misuri il valore di una nazione in base alla sua creatività, alla produzione di nuove idee scientifiche, artistiche, tecnologiche o sociali, non in termini di denaro."...

"Le nazioni muoiono quando diventano rigide e inflessibili, quando la loro burocrazia domina tutto e ristagnano, quando hanno un'opinione troppo alta di loro stesse."

Gregory Chaitin in Darwin Alla Prova.”
― Gregory Chaitin, Proving Darwin: Making Biology Mathematical

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“According to Pythagoras everything is number, and God is a mathematician. This point of view has worked pretty well throughout the development of modern science. However now a neo-Pythagorian doctrine is emerging, according to which everything is 0/1 bits, and the world is built entirely out of digital information. In other words, now everything is software, God is a computer programmer, not a mathematician, and the world is a giant information-processing system, a giant computer.”
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“Formal languages avoid the paradoxes by removing the ambiguities of natural languages. The paradoxes are eliminated, but there is a price. Paradoxical natural languages are evolving open systems. Artificial languages are static closed systems subject to limitative meta-theorems. You avoid the paradoxes, but you are left with a corpse!”
― Gregory Chaitin

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