- Hardcover: 224 pages
- Publisher: Atlantic Books (29 Nov 2006)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 1843545241
- ISBN-13: 978-1843545248
- Product Dimensions: 23.4 x 16 x 2.8 cm
- Average Customer Review: 3.2 out of 5 stars See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 893,640 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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"'One of the great original minds.' Ian Stewart 'No one, but no one, is exploring to greater depths the amazing insights and theorems that flow from Godel's work on undecidability than Gregory Chaitin. If you haven't yet encountered his brilliant, clear, creative, wide-ranging mind, this is the book to read and absorb.' Martin Gardner" --Publisher
Stephen Poole, Guardian
'Strange and marvellous... Disarmingly funny, but also thrillingly
clear.' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
clear.' --This text refers to the Paperback edition.
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9 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
4.0 out of 5 stars
Wade through the bravado and find a jewel?,
By Eanna (Ireland) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Meta Maths: The Quest for Omega (Hardcover)
Readers tend to have a problem with Chaitin's style of writing.
While reading, I feel the need to bite my tongue when dealing with the author's familiar, cheery, exclamation-point-based writing, and his self-assured self-importance - this does seem to me to be a man who wishes to impress the reader through friendly bravado. The difficulty is not to let that approach detract from the notions presented within. These are interesting, thought-provoking, and accessible explanations of an area with which I am not, was not, familiar. It's always a joy to find disparate areas that fuse into something logically solid and coherent. The author has succeeded in perform this magic trick. He offers his ideas as a silver bullet, a cure-all viewpoint, a Theory of Everything that is based on Maths. Unfortunately, the author's writing style can make his ideas appear just that - a magic trick, performed by a charlatan. Me, I need to see this man's work criticised for its content. I need to read other books dealing this area. For me, it holds water - and this very fact makes me think that it's exciting and dangerous. But I am not an expert - I'm barely a novice (altho I am a computer programmer for some years now).
6 of 7 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
spoiled by bias, egomania and screeching emphasis,
By A reader from (England) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Meta Maths: The Quest for Omega (Hardcover)
I bought this book blind, and it is the only math book I have ever simply thrown away.
If the book had all the paragraphs that contained bold text or insistent exclamation marks cut out, and the names of other people working in the same field (Levin, Kolmogorov) added to the index and acknowledged in the text, then it would be worth reading for the math (but there again, it would only be a couple of dozen pages long).
7 of 9 people found the following review helpful:
1.0 out of 5 stars
Poorly written book with little new to say,
By M. R. N. Shackelford "mark shackelford" (Worthing, UK) - See all my reviews (TOP 1000 REVIEWER) (REAL NAME)
This review is from: Meta Maths: The Quest for Omega (Paperback)
What an ANNOYING (?!?) Book. The style of WRITING with many (!) at the end of sentences and randomly BOLD words makes for a very distracting read. And it seems (to me) that Mr. Chaitin has merely found a different way of expressing a well known mathematical proposition - better expressed by the likes of Godel and Turing (who were true mathematical geniuses). He seems to be trying to edge himself into the pantheon of genius on their coat tails. Not so much "standing on the shoulders of giants", as "trying to sneak into the party through the back door".
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