Edward Beltrami: What Is Random?

Cover: 9781461271567 | What Is Random? | Chance and Order in Mathematics and Life | Beltrami

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Beschreibung

This book is intended to provoke, entertain, and inform by challenging the reader's ideas about randomness, providing first one and then another interpretation of what this elusive concept means. As the book progresses, the author teases out the various threads and shows how mathematics, communication engineering, computer science, philosophy, physics, and psychology all contribute to the discourse by illuminating different facets of the same idea.

The material in this book should be readily accessible to anyone with experience in undergraduate mathematics, no calculus needed. Three appendices provide some of the background information regarding binary representations and logarithms that are needed. Although an effort is made to justify most statements of a mathematical nature, a few are presented without corroboration, since they entail close-knit arguments that would detract from the main ideas. Readers can safely bypass the details without any loss, andin any case, the fine points are available in the technical notes assembled at the end.

Zusammenfassung

Order is an illusion, the quantum theorists tell us; at bottom the world is ruled by quantum indeterminacy. Yet randomness is also an illusion: the appearance of randomness is only a sign of ignorance, of our inability to detect the pattern. Does randomness really exist? In this wonderfully thought-provoking little book, mathematician Ed Beltrami shows how order and randomness are really two sides of the same mysterious coin.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

[1] The Taming of Chance.- From Unpredictable to Lawful.- Probability.- Order in the Large.- The Normal Law.- Is It Random?.- More About the Law of Large Numbers.- Where We Stand Now.- [2] Uncertainty and Information.- Messages and Information.- Entropy.- Messages, Codes, and Entropy.- Approximate Entropy.- Again, Is It Random?.- The Perception of Randomness.- [3] Janus-Faced Randomness.- Is Determinism an Illusion?.- Generating Randomness.- Janus and the Demons.- [4] Algorithms, Information, and Chance.- Algorithmic Randomness.- Algorithmic Complexity and Undecidability.- Algorithmic Probability.- [5] The Edge of Randomness.- Between Order and Disorder.- Self-Similarity and Complexity.- What Good is Randomness?.- Sources and Further Readings.- Technical Notes.- Appendix A: Geometric Sums.- Appendix B: Binary Numbers.- Appendix C: Logarithims.- References.

Details

Erscheinungsjahr:	2012
Fachbereich:	Wahrscheinlichkeitstheorie
Genre:	Importe , Mathematik
Rubrik:	Naturwissenschaften & Technik
Medium:	Taschenbuch
ISBN-13:	9781461271567
ISBN-10:	1461271568
Sprache:	Englisch
Einband:	Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor:	Beltrami, Edward
Auflage:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st edition 1999
Hersteller:	Springer US Springer New York Springer US, New York, N.Y.
Verantwortliche Person für die EU:	Springer-Verlag GmbH, Tiergartenstr. 17, D-69121 Heidelberg, productsafety@springernature.com
Maße:	203 x 127 x 13 mm
Von/Mit:	Edward Beltrami
Erscheinungsdatum:	28.10.2012
Gewicht:	0,246 kg