What is Random? Chance and Order in Mathematics and Life

Edward J Beltrami

What is Random? Chance and Order in Mathematics and Life - New York Copernicus 1999 - xx, 201 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

1. The Taming of Chance -- 2. Uncertainty and Information -- 3. Janus-Faced Randomness -- 4. Algorithms, Information, and Chance -- 5. The Edge of Randomness -- App. A. Geometric Sums -- App. B. Binary Numbers -- App. C. Logarithims.

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Probabilities. Chance.

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