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KOLMOGOROV COMPLEXITY AND ALGORITHMIC RANDOMNESS
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| By: |
A. Shen, V. A. Uspensky, N. Vereshchagin |
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Hardback |
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£119.00 |
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| ISBN 10: |
1470431823 |
| ISBN 13: |
9781470431822 |
| Publisher: |
AMERICAN MATHEMATICAL SOCIETY |
| Pub. date: |
30 July, 2017 |
| Series: |
Mathematical Surveys and Monographs |
| Pages: |
499 |
| Description: |
Offers a textbook-style exposition of the basic notions of complexity and randomness; and covers some recent work done by participants of the "Kolmogorov seminar" in Moscow (started by Kolmogorov himself in the 1980s) and their colleagues. This book contains numerous exercises (embedded in the text) that will help readers to grasp the material. |
| Synopsis: |
Looking at a sequence of zeros and ones, we often feel that it is not random, that is, it is not plausible as an outcome of fair coin tossing. Why? The answer is provided by algorithmic information theory: because the sequence is compressible, that is, it has small complexity or, equivalently, can be produced by a short program. This idea, going back to Solomonoff, Kolmogorov, Chaitin, Levin, and others, is now the starting point of algorithmic information theory.The first part of this book is a textbook-style exposition of the basic notions of complexity and randomness; the second part covers some recent work done by participants of the ``Kolmogorov seminar'' in Moscow (started by Kolmogorov himself in the 1980s) and their colleagues. This book contains numerous exercises (embedded in the text) that will help readers to grasp the material. |
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US |
| Imprint: |
American Mathematical Society |
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Returnable |
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