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What Is Random? Chance and Order in Mathematics and Life

by Edward J. Beltrami

  • ISBN: 9780387987378
  • ISBN10: 0387987371

What Is Random? Chance and Order in Mathematics and Life

by Edward J. Beltrami

  • Binding: Hardcover
  • Publisher: Springer Verlag
  • Publish date: 08/01/1999
  • ISBN: 9780387987378
  • ISBN10: 0387987371
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Description: Randomness turns out to be one of those concepts, like "solid matter" in physics, that works just fine on an everyday level but mysteriously disappears once we move in to examine its fine structure. In this fascinating book, mathematician Edward Beltrami takes a close enough look at randomness to make it mysteriously disappear. People familiar with quantum indeterminacy tell us that order is an illusion, and that the world is fundamentally random. Yet randomness is also an illusion. Then which is real? Perhaps order and randomness, like waves and particles, the author suggests, are two sides of the same coin.
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