Paradoxes of Randomness Export

@article{citeulike:321472, abstract = {I'll discuss how Goedel's paradox \"This statement is false/unprovable\" yields his famous result on the limits of axiomatic reasoning. I'll contrast that with my work, which is based on the paradox of \"The first uninteresting positive whole number\", which is itself a rather interesting number, since it is precisely the first uninteresting number. This leads to my first result on the limits of axiomatic reasoning, namely that most numbers are uninteresting or random, but we can never be sure, we can never prove it, in individual cases. And these ideas culminate in my discovery that some mathematical facts are true for no reason, they are true by accident, or at random. In other words, God not only plays dice in physics, but even in pure mathematics, in logic, in the world of pure reason. Sometimes mathematical truth is completely random and has no structure or pattern that we will ever be able to understand. It is NOT the case that simple clear questions have simple clear answers, not even in the world of pure ideas, and much less so in the messy real world of everyday life.}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, author = {Chaitin, G. J.}, citeulike-article-id = {321472}, citeulike-linkout-0 = {http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0108127}, citeulike-linkout-1 = {http://arxiv.org/pdf/math/0108127}, citeulike-linkout-2 = {http://adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-bib_query?bibcode=2001math......8127C}, comment = {This is an introduction to Chaitin's ideas, presented in a summer school for a group of students, includes incompleteness, Berry's Paradox, "uninteresting numbers". Presents his bibliography. It states some unanswered questions, including Why maths is succesfull despite incompleteness? and Where do mathematical concepts come from?}, eprint = {math/0108127}, journal = {ArXiv Mathematics e-prints}, keywords = {math, phylosophy}, month = {August}, posted-at = {2005-09-15 17:46:53}, priority = {0}, title = {Paradoxes of Randomness}, url = {http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0108127}, year = {2001} }

TY - JOUR ID - citeulike:321472 L3 - citeulike-article-id:321472 N2 - I'll discuss how Goedel's paradox "This statement is false/unprovable" yields his famous result on the limits of axiomatic reasoning. I'll contrast that with my work, which is based on the paradox of "The first uninteresting positive whole number", which is itself a rather interesting number, since it is precisely the first uninteresting number. This leads to my first result on the limits of axiomatic reasoning, namely that most numbers are uninteresting or random, but we can never be sure, we can never prove it, in individual cases. And these ideas culminate in my discovery that some mathematical facts are true for no reason, they are true by accident, or at random. In other words, God not only plays dice in physics, but even in pure mathematics, in logic, in the world of pure reason. Sometimes mathematical truth is completely random and has no structure or pattern that we will ever be able to understand. It is NOT the case that simple clear questions have simple clear answers, not even in the world of pure ideas, and much less so in the messy real world of everyday life. JF - ArXiv Mathematics e-prints TI - Paradoxes of Randomness KW - math KW - phylosophy N1 - This is an introduction to Chaitin's ideas, presented in a summer school for a group of students, includes incompleteness, Berry's Paradox, "uninteresting numbers". Presents his bibliography. It states some unanswered questions, including Why maths is succesfull despite incompleteness? and Where do mathematical concepts come from? AU - Chaitin, GJ PY - 2001/August// UR - http://arxiv.org/abs/math/0108127 ER -