The Random Number Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Numbers That You Can't Predict But Can Rely on
暫譯: 隨機數字密碼：揭開無法預測但可以依賴的數字秘密

Szpiro, George

The Random Number Code: Unlocking the Secrets of Numbers That You Can't Predict But Can Rely on
  • 出版商: CRC
  • 出版日期: 2026-02-26
  • 售價: $10,450
  • 貴賓價: 9.8 折 $10,241
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 232
  • 裝訂: Hardcover - also called cloth, retail trade, or trade
  • ISBN: 1041076444
  • ISBN-13: 9781041076445
  • 相關分類: 機率統計學 Probability-and-statistics

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商品描述

"Who would have thought a book on random numbers would be more than randomly interesting? Author Szpiro draws readers in with clarity, wit and readily understood examples. Plenty of history, examples and some solid math for the cognoscenti!"

--Vint Cerf, Internet Pioneer

"George Szpiro, has managed to explain, in his inimitable, gripping and engaging style, with bite-size chapters, the many facets of randomness. I learned so much from this little book!"

--Prof. Doron Zeilberger, Rutgers University

Random numbers are immensely important in scientific research, in economic decision making, in polling, gaming, and cryptography and algorithm design. Surprisingly, while many popular books in mathematics have been written about prime numbers, about □□, e, √-1, there exist no books for the general reader about random numbers. True, the subject of randomness as such has been the subject of several books, but random numbers are only mentioned, if at all, as a by-product. Given the immense theoretical and practical importance of random numbers, this is astonishing.

This book proposes to fill that gap.

The book discusses random numbers under five headings: What are they? What are they good for? How do we produce them? Why do we need them? How do we fake them? The book has been written with a sophisticated general reader in mind, but should be of much interest to students and academics of all levels who have an interest in mathematics and randomness.

Features

  • Written in an easily readable, conversational style
  • Aimed at general readers who are interested in mathematics in general, or who have read books about □□, e, √-1, or irrational numbers
  • Accessible to anybody with a high-school mathematics education

商品描述(中文翻譯)

「誰會想到一本關於隨機數的書會比隨機有趣得多？作者 Szpiro 以清晰、機智和易於理解的範例吸引讀者。書中充滿了歷史、範例以及一些對內行人來說相當扎實的數學！」
—Vint Cerf，網際網路先驅

「George Szpiro 以他獨特、引人入勝的風格，透過簡短的章節，成功地解釋了隨機性的多個面向。我從這本小書中學到了很多！」
—Doron Zeilberger 教授，羅格斯大學

隨機數在科學研究、經濟決策、民調、遊戲、密碼學和演算法設計中極為重要。令人驚訝的是，雖然有許多關於質數、π、e、√-1 的流行數學書籍，但卻沒有針對一般讀者的隨機數書籍。確實，隨機性這一主題已經成為幾本書的主題，但隨機數僅作為副產品提及（如果有的話）。考慮到隨機數的理論和實際重要性，這實在令人驚訝。

本書旨在填補這一空白。

本書從五個主題討論隨機數：它們是什麼？它們有什麼用？我們如何產生它們？我們為什麼需要它們？我們如何偽造它們？本書是針對具有一定素養的一般讀者而寫，但對於所有對數學和隨機性感興趣的學生和學者來說，應該也會非常有趣。

**特色**
- 以易讀的對話風格撰寫
- 針對對數學感興趣的一般讀者，或曾閱讀過關於π、e、√-1 或無理數的書籍
- 任何具有高中數學教育背景的人都能輕鬆理解

作者簡介

George Szpiro, born in Vienna, holds dual Swiss and Israeli citizenship. He earned his MSc in mathematics from the Swiss Institute of Technology (ETH) in Zurich, an MBA from Stanford University, and a doctorate in mathematical economics from the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. Following consulting stints with McKinsey and Company, he turned to academia. After several years of academic research and teaching at the Wharton School (University of Pennsylvania) and the Hebrew University, he changed careers again and became a foreign correspondent and mathematics columnist for the Swiss daily Neue Zürcher Zeitung. For over twenty years he reported from Israel, and for six years from New York.

Apart from two dozen academic papers in mathematics, statistics, economics, and genetic algorithms, Szpiro has authored nine books for general interest readers in mathematics, economics, and political science. He has been awarded the Prix Média by the Swiss Academy of Natural Sciences, the Medienpreis of the German Mathematical Society, and was a finalist for the Descartes Prize of the European Union.

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

喬治·斯皮羅（George Szpiro）出生於維也納，擁有瑞士和以色列的雙重國籍。他在蘇黎世的瑞士聯邦理工學院（ETH）獲得數學碩士學位，在史丹佛大學獲得工商管理碩士學位，並在耶路撒冷的希伯來大學獲得數學經濟學博士學位。在與麥肯錫公司（McKinsey and Company）進行顧問工作後，他轉向學術界。在賓夕法尼亞大學的沃頓商學院（Wharton School）和希伯來大學進行了幾年的學術研究和教學後，他再次轉職，成為瑞士日報《新蘇黎世報》（Neue Zürcher Zeitung）的外派記者和數學專欄作家。在以色列報導了超過二十年，並在紐約報導了六年。

除了在數學、統計學、經濟學和遺傳演算法領域發表的二十多篇學術論文外，斯皮羅還為一般讀者撰寫了九本有關數學、經濟學和政治學的書籍。他曾獲得瑞士自然科學院的媒體獎（Prix Média）、德國數學學會的媒體獎（Medienpreis），並曾是歐盟笛卡爾獎（Descartes Prize）的決賽入圍者。

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