Author | Beltrami, Edward. author |
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Title | What Is Random? [electronic resource] : Chance and Order in Mathematics and Life / by Edward Beltrami |
Imprint | New York, NY : Springer New York : Imprint: Springer, 1999 |
Connect to | http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-1472-4 |
Descript | XX, 201 p. online resource |
[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