Wednesday, May 21, 2008

Return to computer science

During my early high school days I was very much enthusiastic in Computer.But near the end of the school I became interested in Physics and Mathematics.But in last few months I am becoming interested in Computer Science again.That is principally due to reading Chaitin's works.His home page is: www.cs.auckland.ac.nz/~chaitin/

Chaitin's brand new idea Algorithmic Information Theory (AIT) is subtle! This introduces a way to measure the computational complexity of something. It is denoted as H(X); which means the bits of information to build something X.

His lecture on the debate of foundation of mathematics is clever but easy to understand.

Saturday, May 17, 2008

Dangerous Knowledge


In this outstanding documentary Dangerous Knowledge David Malone features the works of four of the greatest mathematicians of the previous century.