What Is Random?: Chance and Order in Mathematics and Life - Hardcover

Beltrami, Edward

 
9780387987378: What Is Random?: Chance and Order in Mathematics and Life
Hardcover
ISBN 10: 0387987371 ISBN 13: 9780387987378
Verlag: Copernicus, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

In this fascinating book, mathematician Ed Beltrami takes a close enough look at randomness to make it mysteriously disappear. The results of coin tosses, it turns out, are determined from the start, and only our incomplete knowledge makes them look random. "Random" sequences of numbers are more elusive, but Godels undecidability theorem informs us that we will never know. Those familiar with quantum indeterminacy assert that order is an illusion, and that the world is fundamentally random. Yet randomness is also an illusion. Perhaps order and randomness, like waves and particles, are only two sides of the same (tossed) coin.

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Verlag
Copernicus
Erscheinungsdatum
1999
Sprache
Englisch
ISBN 10 
0387987371
ISBN 13 
9780387987378
Einband
Gebundene Ausgabe
Anzahl der Seiten
221
Kontakt zum Hersteller
Centaurus
buchhandel-buch@springer.com

Abraham-Lincon-Str. 46
Wiesbaden
65189
Deutschland

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