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Chance, calculation and life / / edited by Thierry Gaudin, Marie-Christine Maurel, Jean-Charles Pomerol
| Chance, calculation and life / / edited by Thierry Gaudin, Marie-Christine Maurel, Jean-Charles Pomerol |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : ISTE Ltd : , : John Wiley and Sons Inc, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 530.12 |
| Soggetto topico | Quantum theory |
| Soggetto genere / forma | Electronic books. |
| ISBN |
1-119-82395-1
1-119-82396-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART 1: Randomness in all of its Aspects -- 1 Classical, Quantum and Biological Randomness as Relative Unpredictability -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.1.1. Brief historical overview -- 1.1.2. Preliminary remarks -- 1.2. Randomness in classical dynamics -- 1.3. Quantum randomness -- 1.4. Randomness in biology -- 1.5. Random sequences: a theory invariant approach -- 1.6. Classical and quantum randomness revisited -- 1.6.1. Classical versus algorithmic randomness -- 1.6.2. Quantum versus algorithmic randomness -- 1.7. Conclusion and opening: toward a proper biological randomness -- 1.8. Acknowledgments -- 1.9. References -- 2 In The Name of Chance -- 2.1. The birth of probabilities and games of chance -- 2.1.1. Solutions -- 2.1.2. To what end? -- 2.2. A very brief history of probabilities -- 2.3. Chance? What chance? -- 2.4. Prospective possibility -- 2.4.1. LLN + CLT + ENIAC = MC -- 2.4.2. Generating chance through numbers -- 2.4.3. Going back the other way -- 2.4.4. Prospective possibility as master of the world? -- 2.5. Appendix: Congruent generators, can prospective chance be periodic? -- 2.5.1. A little modulo n arithmetic -- 2.5.2. From erratic arithmetic to algorithmic randomness -- 2.5.3. And, the winner is... Mersenne Twister 623 -- 2.6. References -- 3 Chance in a Few Languages -- 3.1. Classical Sanskrit -- 3.2. Persian and Arabic -- 3.3. Ancient Greek -- 3.4. Russian -- 3.5. Latin -- 3.6. French -- 3.7. English -- 3.8. Dice, chance and the symbolic world -- 3.9. References -- 4 The Collective Determinism of Quantum Randomness -- 4.1. True or false chance -- 4.2. Chance sneaks into uncertainty -- 4.3. The world of the infinitely small -- 4.4. A more figurative example -- 4.5. Einstein's act of resistance.
4.6. Schrödinger's cat to neutrino oscillations -- 4.7. Chance versus the anthropic principle -- 4.8. And luck in life? -- 4.9. Chance and freedom -- 5 Wave-Particle Chaos to the Stability of Living -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The chaos of the wave-particle -- 5.3. The stability of living things -- 5.4. Conclusion -- 5.5. Acknowledgments -- 5.6. References -- 6 Chance in Cosmology: Random and Turbulent Creation of Multiple Cosmos -- 6.1. Is quantum cosmology oxymoronic? -- 6.4. Loop lament -- 6.5. The quantum vacuum exists, Casimir has met it -- 6.6. The generosity of the quantum vacuum -- 6.7. Landscapes -- 6.8. The good works of Inflation -- 6.9. Sub species aeternitatis -- 6.10. The smiling vacuum -- 7 The Chance in Decision: When Neurons Flip a Coin -- 7.1. A very subjective utility -- 7.2. A minimum rationality -- 7.3. There is noise in the choices -- 7.4. On the volatility of parameters -- 7.5. When the brain wears rose-tinted glasses -- 7.7. The will to move an index finger -- 7.8. Free will in debate -- 7.9. The virtue of chance -- 7.10. References -- 8 To Have a Sense of Life: A Poetic Reconnaissance -- 8.1. References -- 9 Divine Chance -- 9.1. Thinking by chance -- 9.2. Chance, need: why choose? -- 9.3. When chance is not chance -- 9.4. When chance comes from elsewhere -- 10 Chance and the Creative Process -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Chance -- 10.3. Creation -- 10.4. Chance in the artistic creative process -- 10.5. An art of the present moment -- 10.6. Conclusion -- 10.7. References -- PART 2: Randomness, Biology and Evolution -- 11 Epigenetics, DNA and Chromatin Dynamics: Where is the Chance and Where is the Necessity? -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Random combinations -- 11.3. Random alterations -- 11.4. Beyond the gene -- 11.5. Epigenetic variation -- 11.6. Concluding remarks -- 11.7. Acknowledgments -- 11.8. References. 12 When Acquired Characteristics Become Heritable: The Lesson of Genomes -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. Horizontal genetic exchange in prokaryotes -- 12.3. Two specificities of eukaryotes theoretically oppose horizontal gene transfer -- 12.4. Criteria for genomic analysis -- 12.5. Abundance of horizontal transfers in unicellular eukaryotes -- 12.6. Remarkable horizontal genetic transfers in pluricellular eukaryotes -- 12.7. Main mechanisms of horizontal genetic transfers -- 12.8. Introgressions and limits to the concept of species -- 12.9. Conclusion -- 12.10. References -- 13 The Evolutionary Trajectories of Organisms are Not Stochastic -- 13.1. Evolution and stochasticity: a few metaphors -- 13.2. The Gouldian metaphor of the "replay" of evolution -- 13.3. The replay of evolution: what happened -- 13.4. Evolutionary replay experiments -- 13.5. Phylogenies versus experiments -- 13.6. Stochasticity, evolution and extinction -- 13.7. Conclusion -- 13.8. References -- 14 Evolution in the Face of Chance -- 14.1. Introduction -- 14.2. Waddington and the concept of canalization -- 14.3. A stochastic model of Darwinian evolution -- 14.3.1. Redundancy and neutral networks -- 14.3.2. A toy model -- 14.3.3. Mutation-selection algorithm -- 14.4. Numerical results -- 14.4.1. Canalization -- 14.4.2. Target selection -- 14.4.3. Neighborhood selection -- 14.5. Discussion -- 14.6. Acknowledgments -- 15 Chance, Contingency and the Origins of Life: Some Historical Issues -- 15.1. Acknowledgments -- 15.2. References -- 16 Chance, Complexity and the Idea of a Universal Ethics1 -- 16.1. Cosmic evolution and advances in computation -- 16.2. Two notions of complexity -- 16.3. Biological computations -- 16.4. Energy and emergy -- 16.5. What we hold onto -- 16.6. Noah knew this already! -- 16.7. Create, protect and collect -- 16.8. An ethics of organized complexity. 16.9. Not so easy -- 16.10. References -- List of Authors -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE in Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing -- EULA. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910555057103321 |
| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : ISTE Ltd : , : John Wiley and Sons Inc, , [2021] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Chance, calculation and life / / edited by Thierry Gaudin, Marie-Christine Maurel, Jean-Charles Pomerol
| Chance, calculation and life / / edited by Thierry Gaudin, Marie-Christine Maurel, Jean-Charles Pomerol |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Hoboken, New Jersey : , : ISTE Ltd : , : John Wiley and Sons Inc, , [2021] |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (305 pages) : illustrations |
| Disciplina | 530.12 |
| Soggetto topico | Quantum theory |
| ISBN |
1-119-82395-1
1-119-82396-X |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Nota di contenuto |
Cover -- Half-Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Contents -- Preface -- Introduction -- PART 1: Randomness in all of its Aspects -- 1 Classical, Quantum and Biological Randomness as Relative Unpredictability -- 1.1. Introduction -- 1.1.1. Brief historical overview -- 1.1.2. Preliminary remarks -- 1.2. Randomness in classical dynamics -- 1.3. Quantum randomness -- 1.4. Randomness in biology -- 1.5. Random sequences: a theory invariant approach -- 1.6. Classical and quantum randomness revisited -- 1.6.1. Classical versus algorithmic randomness -- 1.6.2. Quantum versus algorithmic randomness -- 1.7. Conclusion and opening: toward a proper biological randomness -- 1.8. Acknowledgments -- 1.9. References -- 2 In The Name of Chance -- 2.1. The birth of probabilities and games of chance -- 2.1.1. Solutions -- 2.1.2. To what end? -- 2.2. A very brief history of probabilities -- 2.3. Chance? What chance? -- 2.4. Prospective possibility -- 2.4.1. LLN + CLT + ENIAC = MC -- 2.4.2. Generating chance through numbers -- 2.4.3. Going back the other way -- 2.4.4. Prospective possibility as master of the world? -- 2.5. Appendix: Congruent generators, can prospective chance be periodic? -- 2.5.1. A little modulo n arithmetic -- 2.5.2. From erratic arithmetic to algorithmic randomness -- 2.5.3. And, the winner is... Mersenne Twister 623 -- 2.6. References -- 3 Chance in a Few Languages -- 3.1. Classical Sanskrit -- 3.2. Persian and Arabic -- 3.3. Ancient Greek -- 3.4. Russian -- 3.5. Latin -- 3.6. French -- 3.7. English -- 3.8. Dice, chance and the symbolic world -- 3.9. References -- 4 The Collective Determinism of Quantum Randomness -- 4.1. True or false chance -- 4.2. Chance sneaks into uncertainty -- 4.3. The world of the infinitely small -- 4.4. A more figurative example -- 4.5. Einstein's act of resistance.
4.6. Schrödinger's cat to neutrino oscillations -- 4.7. Chance versus the anthropic principle -- 4.8. And luck in life? -- 4.9. Chance and freedom -- 5 Wave-Particle Chaos to the Stability of Living -- 5.1. Introduction -- 5.2. The chaos of the wave-particle -- 5.3. The stability of living things -- 5.4. Conclusion -- 5.5. Acknowledgments -- 5.6. References -- 6 Chance in Cosmology: Random and Turbulent Creation of Multiple Cosmos -- 6.1. Is quantum cosmology oxymoronic? -- 6.4. Loop lament -- 6.5. The quantum vacuum exists, Casimir has met it -- 6.6. The generosity of the quantum vacuum -- 6.7. Landscapes -- 6.8. The good works of Inflation -- 6.9. Sub species aeternitatis -- 6.10. The smiling vacuum -- 7 The Chance in Decision: When Neurons Flip a Coin -- 7.1. A very subjective utility -- 7.2. A minimum rationality -- 7.3. There is noise in the choices -- 7.4. On the volatility of parameters -- 7.5. When the brain wears rose-tinted glasses -- 7.7. The will to move an index finger -- 7.8. Free will in debate -- 7.9. The virtue of chance -- 7.10. References -- 8 To Have a Sense of Life: A Poetic Reconnaissance -- 8.1. References -- 9 Divine Chance -- 9.1. Thinking by chance -- 9.2. Chance, need: why choose? -- 9.3. When chance is not chance -- 9.4. When chance comes from elsewhere -- 10 Chance and the Creative Process -- 10.1. Introduction -- 10.2. Chance -- 10.3. Creation -- 10.4. Chance in the artistic creative process -- 10.5. An art of the present moment -- 10.6. Conclusion -- 10.7. References -- PART 2: Randomness, Biology and Evolution -- 11 Epigenetics, DNA and Chromatin Dynamics: Where is the Chance and Where is the Necessity? -- 11.1. Introduction -- 11.2. Random combinations -- 11.3. Random alterations -- 11.4. Beyond the gene -- 11.5. Epigenetic variation -- 11.6. Concluding remarks -- 11.7. Acknowledgments -- 11.8. References. 12 When Acquired Characteristics Become Heritable: The Lesson of Genomes -- 12.1. Introduction -- 12.2. Horizontal genetic exchange in prokaryotes -- 12.3. Two specificities of eukaryotes theoretically oppose horizontal gene transfer -- 12.4. Criteria for genomic analysis -- 12.5. Abundance of horizontal transfers in unicellular eukaryotes -- 12.6. Remarkable horizontal genetic transfers in pluricellular eukaryotes -- 12.7. Main mechanisms of horizontal genetic transfers -- 12.8. Introgressions and limits to the concept of species -- 12.9. Conclusion -- 12.10. References -- 13 The Evolutionary Trajectories of Organisms are Not Stochastic -- 13.1. Evolution and stochasticity: a few metaphors -- 13.2. The Gouldian metaphor of the "replay" of evolution -- 13.3. The replay of evolution: what happened -- 13.4. Evolutionary replay experiments -- 13.5. Phylogenies versus experiments -- 13.6. Stochasticity, evolution and extinction -- 13.7. Conclusion -- 13.8. References -- 14 Evolution in the Face of Chance -- 14.1. Introduction -- 14.2. Waddington and the concept of canalization -- 14.3. A stochastic model of Darwinian evolution -- 14.3.1. Redundancy and neutral networks -- 14.3.2. A toy model -- 14.3.3. Mutation-selection algorithm -- 14.4. Numerical results -- 14.4.1. Canalization -- 14.4.2. Target selection -- 14.4.3. Neighborhood selection -- 14.5. Discussion -- 14.6. Acknowledgments -- 15 Chance, Contingency and the Origins of Life: Some Historical Issues -- 15.1. Acknowledgments -- 15.2. References -- 16 Chance, Complexity and the Idea of a Universal Ethics1 -- 16.1. Cosmic evolution and advances in computation -- 16.2. Two notions of complexity -- 16.3. Biological computations -- 16.4. Energy and emergy -- 16.5. What we hold onto -- 16.6. Noah knew this already! -- 16.7. Create, protect and collect -- 16.8. An ethics of organized complexity. 16.9. Not so easy -- 16.10. References -- List of Authors -- Index -- Other titles from iSTE in Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing -- EULA. |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910830981403321 |
| Hoboken, New Jersey : , : ISTE Ltd : , : John Wiley and Sons Inc, , [2021] | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Les ingénieurs des Mines : cultures, pouvoirs, pratiques : Colloque des 7 et 8 octobre 2010 / / Anne-Françoise Garçon, Bruno Belhoste
| Les ingénieurs des Mines : cultures, pouvoirs, pratiques : Colloque des 7 et 8 octobre 2010 / / Anne-Françoise Garçon, Bruno Belhoste |
| Autore | Appert Olivier |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | Paris, : Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique, 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (484 p.) |
| Altri autori (Persone) |
ArmatteMichel
BelhosteBruno BeltranAlain BoulletDaniel BrydenAlan ChancerelPierre ChickMartin CouveinhesPierre DabWilliam DefranceGustave EscudierJean-Louis FaurePascal FoassoCyrille GarçonAnne-Françoise GaudinThierry JolyHervé LaboulaisIsabelle LattyLionel Lespinet-MoretIsabelle LettéMichel MoattiAlexandre OuryJean-Marc PassaquiJean-Philippe RochatJean SamsonStéphanie StoffaesChristian VogelJakob |
| Soggetto topico |
Industrial policy - France - History
Mining engineers - France - History Engineering - France - History Public works - France - History |
| Soggetto non controllato |
École polytechnique
industrie géologie ingénieurs sciences mines nucléaire énergie ouvriers mineurs environnement ressources minérales sécurité |
| ISBN | 2-8218-2830-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | fre |
| Altri titoli varianti |
ingénieurs des Mines
ingénieurs des Mines |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910416490503321 |
Appert Olivier
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| Paris, : Institut de la gestion publique et du développement économique, 2013 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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Life sciences, information sciences / / edited by Thierry Gaudin [and three others]
| Life sciences, information sciences / / edited by Thierry Gaudin [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : ISTE Ltd/John Wiley and Sons Inc., , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Disciplina | 025 |
| Collana | Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Information science
Life sciences |
| ISBN |
1-119-51660-9
1-119-51658-7 1-119-45271-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910271019503321 |
| London, England ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : ISTE Ltd/John Wiley and Sons Inc., , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
| ||
Life sciences, information sciences / / edited by Thierry Gaudin [and three others]
| Life sciences, information sciences / / edited by Thierry Gaudin [and three others] |
| Pubbl/distr/stampa | London, England ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : ISTE Ltd/John Wiley and Sons Inc., , 2018 |
| Descrizione fisica | 1 online resource (376 pages) : illustrations (some color) |
| Disciplina | 025 |
| Collana | Information Systems, Web and Pervasive Computing Series |
| Soggetto topico |
Information science
Life sciences |
| ISBN |
1-119-51660-9
1-119-51658-7 1-119-45271-6 |
| Formato | Materiale a stampa |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione | eng |
| Record Nr. | UNINA-9910815279503321 |
| London, England ; ; Hoboken, New Jersey : , : ISTE Ltd/John Wiley and Sons Inc., , 2018 | ||
| Materiale a stampa | ||
| Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II | ||
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