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The Fate of Schrodinger's Cat

The Fate of Schrodinger's Cat

Stein James D

Hardcover

Series: Problem Solving in Mathematics and Beyond, Book 17

Young Adult Nonfiction

ISBN10: 9811218633
ISBN13: 9789811218637
Publisher: World Scientific Publishing Company
Published: Jul 24 2020
Pages: 172
Weight: 0.88
Height: 0.44 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English

Can we correctly predict the flip of a fair coin more than half the time -- or the decay of a single radioactive atom? Our intuition, based on a lifetime of experience, tells us that we cannot, as these are classic examples of what are known to be 50-50 guesses.

But mathematics is filled with counterintuitive results -- and this book discusses some surprising and entertaining examples. It is possible to devise experiments in which a flipped coin lands heads completely at random half the time, but we can also correctly predict when it will land heads more than half the time. The Fate of Schrodinger's Cat shows how high-school algebra and basic probability theory, with the invaluable assistance of computer simulations, can be used to investigate both the intuitive and the counterintuitive.

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