Gregory Chaitin

Person · Open Library

Works

8

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

United States

Active from

1947

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

11

Total plays

17

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. UCSF Chimera—A visualization system for exploratory research and analysis

   · 2004 · cited 44,354x

2. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,562x

3. QIIME allows analysis of high-throughput community sequencing data

   · 2010 · cited 30,950x

4. Reproducible, interactive, scalable and extensible microbiome data science using QIIME 2

   · 2019 · cited 20,908x

5. Radiotherapy plus Concomitant and Adjuvant Temozolomide for Glioblastoma

   · 2005 · cited 18,740x

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Quotes

• “...Once you entomb mathematics in an artificial language à la Hilbert, once you set up a completely formal axiomatic system, then you can forget that it has any meaning and just look at it as a game that you play with marks on paper that enable you to deduce theorems from axioms. You can forget about the meaning of the game, the game of mathematical reasoning, it's just combinatorial play with symbols! There are certain rules, and you can study these rules and forget that they have any meaning!”
• “Are there mathematical propositions for which there is a considerable amount of computational evidence, evidence that is so persuasive that a physicist would regard them as experimentally verified?”
• “I'm interested in the computer as a new idea, a new and fundamental philosophical concept that changes mathematics, that solves old problems better and suggests new problems, that changes our way of thinking and helps us to understand things better, that gives us radically new insights...”
• “[A]ccording to Weyl, complexity is essential in understanding the concept of a law of nature. If laws of nature may be arbitrarily complex, he argued, the very concept... becomes vacuous. What difference would remain... if the laws meant to explain them were as complex as the phenomena they are meant to explain?Laws of nature must be simple.”
• “Mathematicians are coming up with s that they use in their actual mathematical research. And these, like , I think is the name of one of them ... these are actually like s that have been engineered in a way that they can actually be used by working mathematicians to check the work they're doing.”

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