Chapter 12: Gregory Chaitin: Mathematics, Physics, Biology and Philosophy
Professor Gregory Chaitin, https://ufrj.academia.edu/GregoryChaitin, is at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro in Brazil, where he is working on a mathematical theory of biological creativity. He is also a co-founder of the algorithmic information theory to which he made seminal contributions, including the Omega number. Chaitin's latest book, Proving Darwin: Making Biology Mathematical, has also been published in Spanish, Italian and Japanese…