11 Facts About Gregory Chaitin

Gregory John Chaitin is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist.

Gregory Chaitin is considered to be one of the founders of what is today known as algorithmic complexity together with Andrei Kolmogorov and Ray Solomonoff.

Gregory Chaitin attended the Bronx High School of Science and the City College of New York, where he developed the theory that led to his independent discovery of algorithmic complexity.

Gregory Chaitin is the originator of using graph coloring to do register allocation in compiling, a process known as Gregory Chaitin's algorithm.

Gregory Chaitin was formerly a researcher at IBM's Thomas J Watson Research Center in New York.

Gregory Chaitin has written more than 10 books that have been translated to about 15 languages.

Gregory Chaitin is today interested in questions of metabiology and information-theoretic formalizations of the theory of evolution, and is a member of the Institute for Advanced Studies at Mohammed VI Polytechnic University.

Gregory Chaitin writes about philosophy, especially metaphysics and philosophy of mathematics.

Gregory Chaitin proposes that mathematicians must abandon any hope of proving those mathematical facts and adopt a quasi-empirical methodology.

In 2002 he was given the title of honorary professor by the University of Buenos Aires in Argentina, where his parents were born and where Gregory Chaitin spent part of his youth.

Gregory Chaitin was formerly a researcher at IBM's Thomas J Watson Research Center and a professor at the Federal University of Rio de Janeiro.