The World Is Built on Probability

Cover
Back Cover
Title
Preface
Contents
Introduction
Part I: Tamed Chance
	1. Mathematics of Randomness
		Probability
		Random Numbers
		Random Events
		Discrete Random Variables
		Continuous Random Variables
	2. Decision Making
		These Difficult Decisions
		Random Processes with Discrete States
		Queueing Systems
		Method of Statistical Testing
		Games and Decision Making
	3. Control and Selfcontrol
		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
Part II: Fundamentality of the Probability Laws
	4. 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
	5. Probability in the Microcosm
		Spontaneous Microprocesses
		From Uncertainty Relations to the Wave Function
		Probability and Causality
	6. Probability in Biology
		Introduction
		The Patterns After the Random Combination of Genes in Crossbreeding
		Mutations
		Evolution Through the Eyes of Geneticists
A Concluding Conversation
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