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A conversation between Gregory Chaitin and Stephen Wolfram (July 5, 2021)

The Stephen Wolfram Podcast

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In 19 58, Gr gregg had not seen a computer yet. He was fascinated by computers and mathematics at the same time. The two interests merged because i didn't like gurdo's proof of his incompleteness theorem. When you start with the new idea, which is the computer, and alderotem mathematically, it seemed clear that one of the first steps would be to talk about complexity of computations. That should be a new field of mathematics. And there two obvious ways thit seem to me, to measure the complexity of computings. One way would be to look at the size of the programmes, which is not so obvious to everybodyo,. Most people

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