Description: What Is Random? : Chance and Order in Mathematics and Life, Paperback by Beltrami, Edward, ISBN 1461271568, ISBN-13 9781461271567, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US 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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Book Title: What Is Random? : Chance and Order in Mathematics and Life
Number of Pages: Xx, 201 Pages
Language: English
Publication Name: What Is Random? : Chance and Order in Mathematics and Life
Publisher: Springer New York
Subject: Probability & Statistics / General, General
Publication Year: 2012
Item Weight: 8.8 Oz
Type: Textbook
Item Length: 8 in
Author: Edward Beltrami
Subject Area: Mathematics, Philosophy
Item Width: 5 in
Format: Trade Paperback
