Talk slides.

    Samuel R. Buss.
    "Large Numbers, Busy Beavers, Noncomputability and Incompleteness"
    Food for Thought seminar.

    UCSD. November 1, 2007.

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    Abstract: This talk surveys fundamental concepts in computability theory, including undecidability (noncomputability) and the Godel incompleteness theorems. The motivations and proof sketches are based on the Berry paradox.


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