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Book SynopsisContains articles that discuss a wide range of mathematics and its applications, ranging from expository articles on quantum mechanics, Einstein's equation E = mc2, or compressed sensing, to open problems in analysis, combinatorics, geometry, number theory, and algebra, to lecture series on random matrices, and Fourier analysis.
Trade ReviewTao does a fine job of providing new insights into old ideas, building intuition about why results come out the way they do, exploring why certain problems are at once interesting and hard, and explaining tricks. ...Tao has a book, and a blog, that mathematicians will definitely want to read, either on their screens or on dead trees, and it will be of interest to mathematically sophisticated readers coming from physics, statistics, economics, computer science and doubtless other disciplines. In
Structure and Randomness we have a fascinating glimpse into the mind of one of the best mathematicians working today." - Cosma Shalizi,
American ScientistTable of Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Contents
- Preface
- Expository articles
- Lectures
- Open problems
- Bibliography
