The jungles of randomness : a mathematical safari
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The jungles of randomness : a mathematical safari
Penguin, 1998
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The jungles of randomness : mathematics at the edge of certainty
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Bibliography: p. 209-223
Includes index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
An exploration of randomness and patterns of randomness which lie hidden behind the everyday experience of chance, beginning with the most familiar experiences of random behaviour including tossed coins, rolled dice, lotteries, moving to a mathematical tour of the chaotic universe.
Table of Contents
- The die is cast
- sea of life
- shell game
- call of the firefly
- different drums
- noise police
- complete chaos
- trails of a wanderer
- gambling with numbers
- lifetimes of chance.
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