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What Is Random? - Chance and Order in Mathematics and Life (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999) Loot Price: R413

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What Is Random? - Chance and Order in Mathematics and Life (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999): Edward...

What Is Random? - Chance and Order in Mathematics and Life (Paperback, Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999)

Edward Beltrami

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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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Imprint:	Copernicus Books
Country of origin:	United States
Release date:	October 2012
First published:	1999
Authors:	Edward Beltrami
Dimensions:	203 x 127 x 11mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Paperback
Pages:	201
Edition:	Softcover reprint of the original 1st ed. 1999
ISBN-13:	978-1-4612-7156-7
Categories:	Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Probability & statistics Promotions
LSN:	1-4612-7156-8
Barcode:	9781461271567