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Algorithmic information theory

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  12 March 2014

Michiel van Lambalgen
Michiel van Lambalgen*
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Department of Mathematics and Computer Science, University of Amsterdam, 1018 WB Amsterdam, The Netherlands
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Abstract

We present a critical discussion of the claim (most forcefully propounded by Chaitin) that algorithmic information theory sheds new light on Gödel's first incompleteness theorem.

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The Journal of Symbolic Logic , Volume 54 , Issue 4 , December 1989, pp. 1389 - 1400
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Copyright © Association for Symbolic Logic 1989

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