• Massimo Piattelli Palmarini. Attenti, i Big Data non sono la scienza, Corriere della Sera, 19 June 2016, presents the mathematical analysis of Big Data in C. S. Calude and G. Longo, The deluge of spurious correlations in big data, Foundations of Science (2016).

  • G. Smith. More on Big Data, Big Trouble, March 2016.


  • New Scientist
    "A daring assault on the very bounds of mathematics could bring back treasures we thought were forever beyond our reach. Get ready to know the unknowable", says award-winning writer Marcus Chown, author of The Universe Next Door in the cover story Smash and grab of the April 6, 2002 issue of the New Scientist. "Calude and Pavlov point out that an atom like hydrogen has an infinite number of possible states, each with a different level of energy. ... Calude and Pavlov's method could only produce a probability of whether or not Goldback's conjecture ... is true ... But that's one step better than the current position where there is no probability attached to the out come. Here, at least in principle, is a real result dependent on a 'real' infinity. Cf. B. Clegg. Infinity. The Quest to Think the Unthinkable, Robinson, London, 2003, p. 234. See more in Algorithmic Randomness, Quantum Physics, and Incompleteness, Martin Ziegler's course at the University of Paderborn: Hypercomputation, Ziegler's Does Quantum Mechanics Allow for Infinite Parallelism? and Akl's The Myth of Universal Computation.


  • Pour la Science "... connaître les chiffres d'une machine universelle U à programmes autodélimités précise qui n'a pas été construite de manière adéquate pour avoir des chiffres connus à l'avance est rèellement une tâche difficile, car ΩU contient alors sous forme concentrée l'information sur l'arrêt des programmes de U. Peut-on tenter de calculer quelques chiffres d'un tel ΩU? Oui et c'est ce qu'ont fait récemment C. Calude, M.J. Dinneen et C.K. Shu." For details see the paper  Les Nombres Oméga by Jean-Paul Delahaye, author of the book Information, complexité et hasard, in the 295 issue of the French edition of Scientific American Pour La Science (May 2002)




  • Pour la Science
    "Contrairement à ce que les mathématiciens ont pensé - sans doute par souci d'indépendance et parce qu'ils croient que leur science est reine - le calcul est une affaire physique. C'est à la relativité générale et à la mécanique quantique de déterminer ce qui est possible dans le domaine de la manipulation et du traitement de l'information..." For details see the paper  La barrièere de Turing by Jean-Paul Delahaye in the 312 issue of the French edition of Scientific American Pour La Science (October 2003)





  • Poem on Ω by Robert M. Chute provoked by the paper C. S. Calude, G. J. Chaitin. Randomness everywhere, Nature, 400, 22 July (1999), 319-320. Source: Beloit Poetry Journal Spring 2000, Vol. 50, No. 3, p. 8.

  • "When there is no doubt about a piece of research, the results are not revolutionary. But in an area where there is doubt, they create both scepticism and excitement" says Greg Chaitin in a joint interview with Cris Calude given to Judy Wilford: Computing the Incomputable, University of Auckland News, vol. 32, issues 7, August (2002) p. 9

  • G. J. Chaitin and C. S. Calude paper Mathematics / Randomness everywhere Nature vol 400, 22 July 1999, 319-320 was announced by AMS in October 1999.

  • J. Borwein, P. Borwein, R. Girgensohn and S. Parnes. Experimental Mathematics: A Discussion

  • NZ Herald presentation

  • InfoTech Weekly: Scientists Ponder Future of Computers (click on January 1998 news)

  • Jean-Paul Delahaye. Demontrer ? Pour la Science January 2004.

  • Steven Finch. Well-known Constants: Chaitin Constant. Errata and Addenda

  • Gianpietro Malescio. Predicting with unpredictability Nature 434, 1073 (28 April 2005), 1034.

  • J. Resag. Unvollstandigkeit und Zufall in der Mathematik

  • Simon Collins' NZ Herald article Scotty may soon be able to beam us up, Saturday, 24.07.2004; here is a printable version. In Romanian by Catalin Mosoia from Radio Europa FM

  • In Polish, Jerzy Mycka. Omne sacramentum non est impossibile tibi

  • Some ideas and open problems in quantum randomness are cited at id Quantique and in K. Klotz. Zahlen, wie noch keine waren---Die muhsame Suche nach dem echten Zufall, Innovate!, September 2005, 18--21. (Innovate! is a Quarterly magazine distributed with the Suddeutsche Zeitung)

  • Presque tout est indecidable! par J-P. Delahaye appeared in Pour La Science January 2009

  • Arturo Sangalli. Pythagoras' Revenge: A Mathematical Mystery, Princeton University Press, 2009. (A mystery novel on the philosophy of mathematics)

  • The CBS (US drama) TV show Numb3rs (season 5; episode 5; scene 6) cites the Omega number bits computed by Calude-Dinneen-Shu. For the math behind see scene 6 (LARRY: Ah, Charles, my ambulatory reference book. Chaitin's Omega Constant...? CHARLIE: Omega equals .00787499699. Why, what're you working on? (sees the file, reacts) Oh. FBI file.)

  • Lecture 12: Data Structures and Algorithms - Richard Buckland : After approximately 11:30 minutes the Bead-Sort is presented and credit is given to its "Australians from Christchurch" authors.