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WHAT IS RANDOM? - EDWARD BELTRAMI KARTONIERT (TB)

We all know what randomness is. Or do we? Randomness turns out to be one of those concepts that
works just fine on an everyday level  but becomes muddled upon close inspection. People
familiar with quantum indeterminacy tell us that order is an illusion and that the world is
fundamentally random. Yet these same people also say that randomness is an illusion: The
appearance of randomness is only a sign of our ignorance and inability to detect the pattern.By
applying mathematical thinking  mathematician Edward Beltrami removes much of the vagueness
that encumbers the concept of randomness. You will discover how to quantify what would
otherwise remain elusive. As the book progresses  you will see how mathematics provides a
framework for unifying how chance is interpreted across diverse disciplines. Communication
engineering  computer science  philosophy  physics  and psychology join mathematics in the
discourse to illuminate different facets of the same idea. Thisbook will provoke  entertain 
and inform by challenging your ideas about randomness  providing different interpretations of
what this concept means  and showing how order and randomness are really two sides of the same
mysterious coin.This second edition brings the question of randomness into the twenty-first
century  adding compelling new topics such as quantum uncertainty  cognitive illusions caused
by chance  Poisson processes  and Bayesian probability. An expanded technical notes section
offers deeper explorations of a variety of mathematical concepts. On the first edition: I
strongly recommend [What is Random?] to all who are interested in science and would like to see
how the ideas of both theoretical mathematics and statistics have been observed and used in
real life throughout history. The American Statistician

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