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Randomness

Probability 2007-06-13 v2 Cryptography and Security Statistics Theory Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability Statistics Theory

Abstract

Here we present in a single essay a combination and completion of the several aspects of the problem of randomness of individual objects which of necessity occur scattered in our texbook "An Introduction to Kolmogorov Complexity and Its Applications" (M. Li and P. Vitanyi), 2nd Ed., Springer-Verlag, 1997.

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@article{arxiv.math/0110086,
  title  = {Randomness},
  author = {Paul M. B. Vitanyi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:math/0110086},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

LaTeX source, 48 pages, Section contributed to `Matematica, Logica, Informatica' Volume 12 of the "Storia del XX Secolo", published by the "Instituto della Enciclopedia Italiana" (smal addition in new version)