Gregory Chaitin, Date of Birth, Place of Birth

Gregory Chaitin

Argentinian mathematician and computer scientist

Date of Birth: 15-Nov-1947

Place of Birth: Chicago, Illinois, United States

Profession: computer scientist, mathematician, university teacher, philosopher

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Scorpio

Gregory John Chaitin ( CHY-tin; born 25 June 1947) is an Argentine-American mathematician and computer scientist.
Beginning in the late 1960s, Chaitin made contributions to algorithmic information theory and metamathematics, in particular a computer-theoretic result equivalent to Gödel's incompleteness theorem.
He is considered to be one of the founders of what is today known as algorithmic (Solomonoff-Kolmogorov-Chaitin, Kolmogorov or program-size) complexity together with Andrei Kolmogorov and Ray Solomonoff.
Along with the works of e.g.
Solomonoff, Kolmogorov, Martin-Löf, and Leonid Levin, algorithmic information theory became a foundational part of theoretical computer science, information theory, and mathematical logic.
It is a common subject in several computer science curricula.
Besides computer scientists, Chaitin's work draws attention of many philosophers and mathematicians to fundamental problems in mathematical creativity and digital philosophy.