This book contains a revised version of the dissertation the author wrote at the Department of Computer Science of the …
The Black Swan: The Impact of the Highly Improbable is a book by the essayist, scholar and statistician Nassim Nicholas …
This book is about luck - or more precisely how we perceive and deal with luck in business and life. …
Although a slightly pessimistic view on life, Nassim gives a great outlook and perspective of success and the role randomness …
In addition to linear perspective, complex numbers and probability were notable discoveries of the Renaissance. While the power of perspective, …
The heat equation can be derived by averaging over a very large number of particles. Traditionally, the resulting PDE is …
The leading reference on probabilistic methods in combinatorics-now expanded and updated When it was first published in 1991, The Probabilistic …
Stochastic games have an element of chance: the state of the next round is determined probabilistically depending upon players' actions …
Noise is ubiquitous in nature and in man-made systems. Noise in oscillators perturbs high-technology devices such as time standards or …
Computational techniques based on simulation have now become an essential part of the statistician's toolbox. It is thus crucial to …
This book represents the refereed proceedings of the Sixth International Conference on Monte Carlo and Quasi-Monte Carlo Methods in Scientific …
Quantum computation, one of the latest joint ventures between physics and the theory of computation, is a scientific field whose …
(Not for distribution) We all know what randomness is. We sometimes choose between options "at random", and if we toss …