Chance, calculation and life / (Record no. 69520)
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| ISBN | 9781119823971 |
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| ISBN | 1119823978 |
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| ISBN | 9781119823964 |
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| ISBN | 111982396X |
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| OCLC library identifier | AU@ |
| System control number | 000069150918 |
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| Call Number | 530.12 |
| 245 00 - TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | Chance, calculation and life / |
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| Place of publication | London : |
| Publisher | ISTE, Ltd. ; |
| Place of publication | Hoboken : |
| Publisher | Wiley, |
| Year of publication | 2021. |
| 300 ## - PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | 1 online resource (305 p.) |
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| Remark 1 | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Remark 2 | Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART 1: Randomness in all of its Aspects -- 1 Classical, Quantum and Biological Randomness as Relative Unpredictability -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.1.1. Brief historical overview -- 1.1.2. Preliminary remarks -- 1.2. Randomness in classical dynamics -- 1.3. Quantum randomness -- 1.4. Randomness in biology -- 1.5. Random sequences: a theory invariant approach -- 1.6. Classical and quantum randomness revisited -- 1.6.1. Classical versus algorithmic randomness |
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| Remark 2 | 1.6.2. Quantum versus algorithmic randomness -- 1.7. Conclusion and opening: toward a proper biological randomness -- 1.8. Acknowledgments -- 1.9. References -- 2 In The Name of Chance -- 2.1. The birth of probabilities and games of chance -- 2.1.1. Solutions -- 2.1.2. To what end? -- 2.2. A very brief history of probabilities -- 2.3. Chance? What chance? -- 2.4. Prospective possibility -- 2.4.1. LLN + CLT + ENIAC = MC -- 2.4.2. Generating chance through numbers -- 2.4.3. Going back the other way -- 2.4.4. Prospective possibility as master of the world? |
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| Remark 2 | 2.5. Appendix: Congruent generators, can prospective chance be periodic? -- 2.5.1. A little modulo n arithmetic -- 2.5.2. From erratic arithmetic to algorithmic randomness -- 2.5.3. And, the winner is... Mersenne Twister 623 -- 2.6. References -- 3 Chance in a Few Languages -- 3.1. Classical Sanskrit -- 3.2. Persian and Arabic -- 3.3. Ancient Greek -- 3.4. Russian -- 3.5. Latin -- 3.6. French -- 3.7. English -- 3.8. Dice, chance and the symbolic world -- 3.9. References -- 4 The Collective Determinism of Quantum Randomness -- 4.1. True or false chance -- 4.2. Chance sneaks into uncertainty |
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| Remark 2 | 4.3. The world of the infinitely small -- 4.4. A more figurative example -- 4.5. Einstein's act of resistance -- 4.6. Schrödinger's cat to neutrino oscillations -- 4.7. Chance versus the anthropic principle -- 4.8. And luck in life? -- 4.9. Chance and freedom -- 5 Wave-Particle Chaos to the Stability of Living -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The chaos of the wave-particle -- 5.3. The stability of living things -- 5.4. Conclusion -- 5.5. Acknowledgments -- 5.6. References -- 6 Chance in Cosmology: Random and Turbulent Creation of Multiple Cosmos -- 6.1. Is quantum cosmology oxymoronic? |
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| Remark 2 | 6.4. Loop lament -- 6.5. The quantum vacuum exists, Casimir has met it -- 6.6. The generosity of the quantum vacuum -- 6.7. Landscapes -- 6.8. The good works of Inflation -- 6.9. Sub species aeternitatis -- 6.10. The smiling vacuum -- 7 The Chance in Decision: When Neurons Flip a Coin -- 7.1. A very subjective utility -- 7.2. A minimum rationality -- 7.3. There is noise in the choices -- 7.4. On the volatility of parameters -- 7.5. When the brain wears rose-tinted glasses -- 7.7. The will to move an index finger -- 7.8. Free will in debate -- 7.9. The virtue of chance -- 7.10. References |
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| Remark 1 | 8 To Have a Sense of Life: A Poetic Reconnaissance. |
| 700 1# - AUTHOR 2 | |
| Author 2 | Gaudin, Thierry. |
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| Author 2 | Maurel, Marie-Christine. |
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| Author 2 | Pomerol, Jean-Charles. |
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| Uniform Resource Identifier | https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119823971 |
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| Koha item type | eBooks |
| 650 #0 - SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--SUBJECT 1 | |
| -- | Quantum theory. |
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| -- | Epigenetics. |
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| -- | Biomathematics. |
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