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- A Certain Uncertainty: Nature’s Random Ways
- A Certain Uncertainty: Nature’s Random Ways
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Books by Mark P. Silverman
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Tools of the trade
- 2 The “fundamental problem” of a practical physicist
- 3 “Mother of all randomness”
- 4 “Mother of all randomness”
- 5 A certain uncertainty
- 6 “Doing the numbers” – nuclear physics and the stock market
- 7 On target: uncertainties of projectile flight
- 8 The guesses of groups
- 9 The random flow of energy
- 10 The random flow of energy
- Bibliography
- Index
4 - “Mother of all randomness”
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 August 2014
- A Certain Uncertainty: Nature’s Random Ways
- A Certain Uncertainty: Nature’s Random Ways
- Copyright page
- Dedication
- Books by Mark P. Silverman
- Contents
- Dedication
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- 1 Tools of the trade
- 2 The “fundamental problem” of a practical physicist
- 3 “Mother of all randomness”
- 4 “Mother of all randomness”
- 5 A certain uncertainty
- 6 “Doing the numbers” – nuclear physics and the stock market
- 7 On target: uncertainties of projectile flight
- 8 The guesses of groups
- 9 The random flow of energy
- 10 The random flow of energy
- Bibliography
- Index
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- A Certain UncertaintyNature's Random Ways, pp. 194 - 271Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2014