Description - Metamaths by Gregory Chaitin
Mathematician Chaitin discovered the Omega number in his quest for representation of the unknowable in mathematics, as sought by Godel and Turing before him. His explication here is enthusiastic (lots of exclamation marks), chatty (about math's philosophical underpinnings), and personable (plenty of anecdotes). Clearly he's trying to engage readers joyfully in the subject matter; but general readers won't be able to follow him, and mathematically sophisticated readers could find the extraneous material distracting.
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