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Previously unpublished letter found in Hastings Institute Museum inside one of the books owned by J. L. Hastings, signed by certain Gyrgy Molnar. Footnotes and comments by Jennifer Misley, Hastings Curator.
Originally published as iljak, H. “The Cantor Trilogy,” Journal of Humanistic Mathematics, Volume 5 Issue 1 (January 2015), pages 299–310. DOI: 10.5642/jhummath.201501.21. Copyright by the author.
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J. L. Hastings was a British mathematician and computer scientist, known for his work in field in artificial intelligence in late twenty first century. The concept of so-called Hastings Induction he developed served as a basis of Cantor, first computer able to devise and prove mathematical theorems in a pseudomental process similar to that of a human.
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Cantor architecture is a general term used for both single computers operating on concepts of Hastings Induction and the cantor networks, large groups of cantor clones designed for cooperation on mathematical research.
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Chaitin’s constant is the probability of a random program to halt. It is an interesting concept since we can consider this probability to exist and be well-defined, and yet it cannot be computed in any way.
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Šiljak, H. (2016). Cantor Trilogy. In: Murder on the Einstein Express and Other Stories. Science and Fiction. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-29066-9_2
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