Undecidability, Uncomputability, and Unpredictability

Inbunden, Engelska, 2021

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Beskrivning

For a brief time in history, it was possible to imagine that a sufficiently advanced intellect could, given sufficient time and resources, in principle understand how to mathematically prove everything that was true.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2021-08-21
Mått:155 x 235 x 19 mm
Vikt:438 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Frontiers Collection
Antal sidor:180
Förlag:Springer Nature Switzerland AG
ISBN:9783030703530

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Innehållsförteckning

Introduction (Aguirre, Merali, Sloan).- Undecidability and Unpredictability: Not Limitations, but Triumphs of Science (Markus Müller).- Indeterminism and Undecidability (Klaas Landsman).- Unpredictability and Randomness (Rade Vuckovac).- Indeterminism, Causality and Information: Has Physics ever been Deterministic? (Flavio Del Santo).- Undecidability, Fractal Geometry and the Unity of Physics (Tim Palmer).- A Gödelian Hunch from Quantum Theory (Hippolyte Dourdent).- Epistemic Horizons: This Sentence is ..... (Jochen Szangolies).- Why is the Universe Comprehensible? (Ian Durham).- Noisy Deductive Reasoning: How Humans Construct Math, and How Math Constructs Universes (David Wolpert, David Kinney).- Computational Complexity as Anthropic Principle: A Fable (Rick Searle).- Appendix (Aguirre, Merali, Sloan).