The broken diceIvar Ekeland
The broken dice
by Ivar Ekeland · first published 1993
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…important cases it does eg. Consciousness. You might find the following books useful in this regard; 1) Ivar Ekeland has a series of popular mathematics books viz. a) Mathematics and the Unexpected b) The Broken Dice, and other Mathematical Tales of Chance c) The Best of all Possible Worlds: Mathematics and Destiny which i have found pretty interesting and thought-provoking in this regard - https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ivar_Ekeland…
on “Reality cannot be turned into mathematics” ↗> The book The Broken Dice by Ivar Ekeland gives an extended account of how the method was invented by a Franciscan friar known only as Brother Edvin sometime between 1240 and 1250.[3] Supposedly, the manuscript is now lost, but…
on “The Mandelbrot Monk (1999)” ↗> the middle-square method is a method of generating pseudorandom numbers > The book The Broken Dice by Ivar Ekeland gives an extended account of how the method was invented by a Franciscan friar known only as Brother Edvin sometime between 1240 and 1250.[3] Supposedly, the manuscript is now lost, but…
on “Borges: The Library of Babel [pdf]” ↗