By Doron Zeilberger
Written: April 13, 2007.
One of my greatest meta-heroes is Greg Chaitin, one of the
most original thinkers of our time. I was very honored when
Cristian Calude invited me to contribute something for
a festschrift that he is editing in honor of
Greg's 60th birthday. But I couldn't just
submit yet another mathematical paper,
so I decided to do meta-mathematics, that is
greatly inspired by Chaitin's seminal work, but also
offers some alternative interpretations, and at the same
time advocates my high-school-algebra approach to doing mathematics.
Added Dec. 31, 2022: read Richard Kaufman's Ode to Finitisn,
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[Appeared in: C.S. Calude, ed.,
"Randomness & Complexity, from Leibniz to Chaitin"
World Scientific, Singapore, 2007, pp. 383-410.].
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