What Is Random?

What Is Random?
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Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Total Pages : 218
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ISBN-10 : 9781461214724
ISBN-13 : 1461214726
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Book Synopsis What Is Random? by : Edward Beltrami

Download or read book What Is Random? written by Edward Beltrami and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2012-12-06 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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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