Unknowable

This essential companion volume to Chaitin's highly successful "The Limits of Mathematics", also published by Springer, gives a brilliant historical survey of the work of this century on the foundations of mathematics, in which the author was a major participant. The Unknowableis a very readable and concrete introduction to Chaitin's ideas, and it includes a detailed explanation of the programming language used by Chaitin in both volumes. It will enable computer users to interact with the author's proofs and discover for themselves how they work. The software for TheUnknowablecan be downloaded from the author's Web site.Chaitin, Gregory J. is the author of 'Unknowable', published 1999 under ISBN 9789814021722 and ISBN 9814021725.