[PDF] Randomnicity Rules And Randomness In The Realm Of The Infinite eBook

Author : Anastasios A. Tsonis
Publisher : Imperial College Press
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 14,24 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1848161972

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This unique book explores the definition, sources and role of randomness. A joyful discussion with many non-mathematical and mathematical examples leads to the identification of three sources of randomness: randomness due to irreversibility which inhibits us from extracting whatever rules may underlie a process, randomness due to our inability to have infinite power (chaos), and randomness due to many interacting systems. Here, all sources are found to have something in common: infinity. The discussion then moves to the physical system (our universe). Through the quantum mechanical character of small scales, the second law of thermodynamics and chaos, randomness is shown to be an intrinsic property of nature ? this is consistent with the three sources of randomness identified above. Finally, an explanation is given as to why rules and randomness cannot exist by themselves, but instead have to coexist. Many examples are presented, ranging from pure mathematical to natural and social processes, that clearly demonstrate how the combination of rules and randomness produces the world we live in.

Author : Anastasios A Tsonis
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 204 pages
File Size : 47,29 MB
Release : 2008-09-18
Category : Science
ISBN : 1908978880

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This unique book explores the definition, sources and role of randomness. A joyful discussion with many non-mathematical and mathematical examples leads to the identification of three sources of randomness: randomness due to irreversibility which inhibits us from extracting whatever rules may underlie a process, randomness due to our inability to have infinite power (chaos), and randomness due to many interacting systems. Here, all sources are found to have something in common: infinity. The discussion then moves to the physical system (our universe). Through the quantum mechanical character of small scales, the second law of thermodynamics and chaos, randomness is shown to be an intrinsic property of nature — this is consistent with the three sources of randomness identified above. Finally, an explanation is given as to why rules and randomness cannot exist by themselves, but instead have to coexist. Many examples are presented, ranging from pure mathematical to natural and social processes, that clearly demonstrate how the combination of rules and randomness produces the world we live in./a

Author : Arkadiusz Jadczyk
Publisher : World Scientific
Page : 358 pages
File Size : 21,12 MB
Release : 2014-07-23
Category : Science
ISBN : 9814569887

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Starting with numerical algorithms resulting in new kinds of amazing fractal patterns on the sphere, this book describes the theory underlying these phenomena and indicates possible future applications. The book also explores the following questions:

Author : Anastasios A. Tsonis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 708 pages
File Size : 30,71 MB
Release : 2017-10-13
Category : Science
ISBN : 3319588958

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Advances in Nonlinear Geosciences is a set of contributions from the participants of “30 Years of Nonlinear Dynamics” held July 3-8, 2016 in Rhodes, Greece as part of the Aegean Conferences, as well as from several other experts in the field who could not attend the meeting. The volume brings together up-to-date research from the atmospheric sciences, hydrology, geology, and other areas of geosciences and presents the new advances made in the last 10 years. Topics include chaos synchronization, topological data analysis, new insights on fractals, multifractals and stochasticity, climate dynamics, extreme events, complexity, and causality, among other topics.

Author : Egan J. Chernoff
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 746 pages
File Size : 30,70 MB
Release : 2013-12-05
Category : Education
ISBN : 940077155X

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This volume provides a necessary, current and extensive analysis of probabilistic thinking from a number of mathematicians, mathematics educators, and psychologists. The work of 58 contributing authors, investigating probabilistic thinking across the globe, is encapsulated in 6 prefaces, 29 chapters and 6 commentaries. Ultimately, the four main perspectives presented in this volume (Mathematics and Philosophy, Psychology, Stochastics and Mathematics Education) are designed to represent probabilistic thinking in a greater context.

Author : Anastasios Tsonis
Publisher :
Page : 146 pages
File Size : 35,40 MB
Release : 2014-04-22
Category :
ISBN : 9781499125399

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A mathematical novel with a thriller twist. A father and his daughter get into a car accident and one of them dies. But who lives and who dies becomes relative and determined by a physical theory that will eventually unite them. In a unique way...

Author : Anastasios A. Tsonis
Publisher : Springer
Page : 707 pages
File Size : 14,60 MB
Release : 2018-05-17
Category : Science
ISBN : 9783319865034

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Advances in Nonlinear Geosciences is a set of contributions from the participants of “30 Years of Nonlinear Dynamics” held July 3-8, 2016 in Rhodes, Greece as part of the Aegean Conferences, as well as from several other experts in the field who could not attend the meeting. The volume brings together up-to-date research from the atmospheric sciences, hydrology, geology, and other areas of geosciences and presents the new advances made in the last 10 years. Topics include chaos synchronization, topological data analysis, new insights on fractals, multifractals and stochasticity, climate dynamics, extreme events, complexity, and causality, among other topics.

Author : Sir Roger Penrose
Publisher : Science Publishers
Page : 824 pages
File Size : 23,93 MB
Release : 2017-11-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 9781938024306

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List Price: $48.007" x 10" (17.78 x 25.4 cm) Black & White on White paper828 pagesScience PublishersISBN-13: 978-1938024511 ISBN-10: 1938024516 BISAC: Science / Physics / Quantum TheoryIs consciousness an epiphenomenal happenstance of this particular universe? Or does the very concept of a universe depend upon its presence? Does consciousness merely perceive reality, or does reality depend upon it? Did consciousness simply emerge as an effect of evolution? Or was it, in some sense, always "out there" in the world? These questions and more, are addressed in this special edition.

Author : Heinz-Otto Peitgen
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 1013 pages
File Size : 11,5 MB
Release : 2013-06-29
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 1475747403

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For almost ten years chaos and fractals have been enveloping many areas of mathematics and the natural sciences in their power, creativity and expanse. Reaching far beyond the traditional bounds of mathematics and science to the realms of popular culture, they have captured the attention and enthusiasm of a worldwide audience. The fourteen chapters of the book cover the central ideas and concepts, as well as many related topics including, the Mandelbrot Set, Julia Sets, Cellular Automata, L-Systems, Percolation and Strange Attractors, and each closes with the computer code for a central experiment. In the two appendices, Yuval Fisher discusses the details and ideas of fractal image compression, while Carl J.G. Evertsz and Benoit Mandelbrot introduce the foundations and implications of multifractals.

Author : Burton G. Malkiel
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 454 pages
File Size : 16,82 MB
Release : 2007-12-17
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 0393330338

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Updated with a new chapter that draws on behavioral finance, the field that studies the psychology of investment decisions, the bestselling guide to investing evaluates the full range of financial opportunities.