文档介绍:arXiv:quant-ph/9807007v1 1 Jul 1998
LOIHI ADMES HSCLETOY MEASUREMENTS, ENTROPY, PHYSICAL RANDOMNESS, ALGORITHMIC
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When I was asked to write for a volume dedicated to Richard Feynman, I decided
that I should select the subject in which I was influenced by him the most, and which
would still be consistent with the overall theme putation and physics. And these
influences started well before I met him in person: I got Feynman’s “Lectures on Physics”
more than a quarter century ago, in Polish translation, from my father. As a finishing
high school student I was panying him on a hunting expedition in the lake district
of Poland — a remote corner of the country. Every few days we drove for supplies to