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The Search for the Perfect Language

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Speaker(s): 
Gregory Chaitin
Collection/Series: 
Colloquium
PIRSA Number: 
09090007

Abstract

I will tell how the story given in Umberto Eco's book The Search for the Perfect Language continues with modern work on logical and programming languages.(For more information, see http://www.umcs.maine.edu/~chaitin/hu.html.)