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WHAT IS RANDOM? - EDWARD BELTRAMI KARTONIERT (TB)

This book is intended to provoke  entertain  and inform by challenging the reader's ideas about
randomness  providing first one and then another interpretation of what this elusive concept
means. As the book progresses  the author teases out the various threads and shows how
mathematics  communication engineering  computer science  philosophy  physics  and psychology
all contribute to the discourse by illuminating different facets of the same idea. The material
in this book should be readily accessible to anyone with experience in undergraduate
mathematics  no calculus needed. Three appendices provide some of the background information
regarding binary representations and logarithms that are needed. Although an effort is made to
justify most statements of a mathematical nature  a few are presented without corroboration 
since they entail close-knit arguments that would detract from the main ideas. Readers can
safely bypass the details without any loss  andin any case  the fine points are available in
the technical notes assembled at the end.

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