Skip to main content
Search type Search syntax
Tags [tag]
Exact "words here"
Author user:1234
user:me (yours)
Score score:3 (3+)
score:0 (none)
Answers answers:3 (3+)
answers:0 (none)
isaccepted:yes
hasaccepted:no
inquestion:1234
Views views:250
Code code:"if (foo != bar)"
Sections title:apples
body:"apples oranges"
URL url:"*.example.com"
Saves in:saves
Status closed:yes
duplicate:no
migrated:no
wiki:no
Types is:question
is:answer
Exclude -[tag]
-apples
For more details on advanced search visit our help page
Results tagged with
Search options not deleted user 56328
11 votes
3 answers
709 views

natural metrics for proof length

I am trying to make my way into Homotopy Type Theory(HoTT) where a mathematician may view proofs as paths. Intuitively, this leads me to the idea of a metric on the space of mathematical propositions. …
Aidan Rocke's user avatar
  • 3,871
1 vote
Accepted

natural metrics for proof length

Inspired by the informal notion of Cognitive distance, in 2010 Charles Bennett, Peter Gács, Ming Li, Paul Vitanyí and Wojcech Zurech introduced the notion of Information Distance which was used in the …
Aidan Rocke's user avatar
  • 3,871
6 votes
2 answers
794 views

Kolmogorov's approach to probability theory

Question: Did Kolmogorov develop a set of axioms for probability theory motivated by Algorithmic Information Theory in the 1960s? Context: In 1965, Andrey Kolmogorov considered three approaches to inf …
Aidan Rocke's user avatar
  • 3,871
6 votes
Accepted

Kolmogorov's approach to probability theory

In 1970, Kolmogorov developed the 'Combinatorial foundations of information theory and the calculus of probabilities' in relation to a presentation at the International Congress of Mathematicians in N …
Aidan Rocke's user avatar
  • 3,871
4 votes
1 answer
677 views

Proof that dynamical systems with bounded Kolmogorov complexity can't emulate all Turing mac...

Motivation: During a discussion with neuroscientists the question arose as to whether the human brain may emulate any Turing machine. If we assume that animal brains may be modelled as deterministic …
Aidan Rocke's user avatar
  • 3,871
5 votes
0 answers
301 views

The expressiveness of functions computable on trees

Motivation: Let's define a function computable on a $k$-ary tree as a function composed with simpler computable functions defined at each node such that a function of this kind defined on a binary tre …
Aidan Rocke's user avatar
  • 3,871