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What Is Random? : Chance and Order in Mathematics and Life
Overview
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.
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- ISBN-13: 9781461271567
- ISBN-10: 1461271568
- Publisher: Copernicus Books
- Publish Date: October 2012
- Dimensions: 7.99 x 5 x 0.51 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.54 pounds
- Page Count: 201
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