Chance, calculation and life / edited by Theirry Gaudin, Marine-Christine Maurel, Jean-Charles Pomerol.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Gaudin, Thierry.

Maurel, Marie-Christine.

Pomerol, Jean-Charles.

Wiley InterScience (Online service)

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Quantum theory.

Epigenetics.

Biomathematics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (305 pages)

Place of Publication:

London : ISTE, Ltd. ; Hoboken : Wiley, 2021.

Contents:

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

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?

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

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?

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

Notes:

Electronic reproduction. Hoboken, N.J. Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

8 To Have a Sense of Life: A Poetic Reconnaissance.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Other Format:

Print version: Gaudin, Thierry. Chance, Calculation and Life.

ISBN:

9781119823971

1119823978

9781119823964

111982396X

Publisher Number:

40031810092

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