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Gregory Chaitin

1947 - Today

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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. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Gregory Chaitin is the 744th most popular mathematician (up from 832nd in 2019), the 7,104th most popular biography from United States (up from 8,275th in 2019) and the 54th most popular American Mathematician.

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Among MATHEMATICIANS

Among mathematicians, Gregory Chaitin ranks 744 out of 1,004. Before him are Nicolas Fuss, Vera T. Sós, Wilhelm Killing, Vaughan Jones, Solomon W. Golomb, and Abu'l-Hasan al-Uqlidisi. After him are Charles Fefferman, David Gale, Stanisław Mazur, Giuseppe Veronese, Guido Castelnuovo, and Leonard Nelson.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1947, Gregory Chaitin ranks 512. Before him are Yuri Matiyasevich, Elena Belova, Bob Evans, Nurlan Balgimbayev, Terry Griffiths, and Emiel Puttemans. After him are John Mayhew, Aleida Assmann, John Bruton, Renata Sorrah, Stefano Benni, and Li Chan-myung.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Gregory Chaitin ranks 7,106 out of 20,380. Before him are C. Gordon Fullerton (1936), Nate Dogg (1969), Jenny Holzer (1950), Brian Doyle-Murray (1945), Phil Woods (1931), and Francesca Woodman (1958). After him are William Wilson Morgan (1906), Michael Spinks (1956), Paul Lockhart (1956), Charles Fefferman (1949), Skeeter Davis (1931), and Karen Wetterhahn (1948).

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Among MATHEMATICIANS In United States

Among mathematicians born in United States, Gregory Chaitin ranks 54. Before him are Harold Hotelling (1895), Ken Ribet (1948), Joseph Keller (1923), Daniel Quillen (1940), Gladys West (1930), and Solomon W. Golomb (1932). After him are Charles Fefferman (1949), David Gale (1921), Curtis T. McMullen (1958), Hassler Whitney (1907), Daniel Lewin (1970), and Rudy Rucker (1946).

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