The World is Built on Probability
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English Pages [269] Year 2023
Table of contents :
Preface
I Tamed Chance
Mathematics of Randomness
Probability
Random Numbers
Random Events
Discrete Random Variables
Continuous Random Variables
Decision Making
These Difficult Decisions
Random Processes with Discrete States
Queueing Systems
Method of Statistical Testing
Games and Decision Making
Control and Self-control
The Problem of Control
From the ``Black Box'' to Cybernetics
Information
Selection of Information from Noise
On the Way to a Stochastic Model of the Brain
II Fundamentality of the Probability Laws
Probability in Classical Physics
Thermodynamics and Its Puzzles
Molecules in a Gas and Probability
Pressure and Temperature of an Ideal Gas
Fluctuations
Entropy and Probability
Entropy and Information
Probability in the Microcosm
Spontaneous Micro-processes
From Uncertainty Relations the Wave Function
Interference and Summing Probability Amplitudes
Probability and Causality
Probability in Biology
Introduction
The Patterns After the Random Combination of Genes in Crossbreeding
Mutations
Evolution Through the Eyes of Geneticists
A Concluding Conversation
Recommended Literature
