Well, there are some related topics on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Randomness?q=random http://www.quora.com/Randomness?q=random and http://www.quora.com/What-ar

Well, there are some related topics on Quora: http://www.quora.com/Randomness?q=random http://www.quora.com/Randomness?q=random and http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-books-on-random-processes http://www.quora.com/What-are-some-good-books-on-random-proc... You can actually ask your question there as well in case this question gets unnoticed on HN; Quora people are very smart and pretty responsive see http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_process http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stochastic_process, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Random_walk and do a search for Random Processes or Stochastic Processes on Amazon bookstore Read about Entropy: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Entropy A good book on Information theory can help you put it in context: http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_18?url=search-alias%3Dstripbooks&field-keywords=information+theory&sprefix=information+theory http://www.amazon.com/s/ref=nb_sb_ss_c_1_18?url=search-alias... Check out GMP http://gmplib.org/ http://gmplib.org/ If you're philosophically inclined read some existentialists, they deal a lot with irrationality and chaos: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Existentialism If you're financially inclined read Random Walk Down Wall Street: http://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street/dp/039331 http://www.amazon.com/Random-Walk-Down-Wall-Street/dp/039331 and the Black Swan: http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp/1400063515 http://www.amazon.com/Black-Swan-Impact-Highly-Improbable/dp... you may want to check out his other book as well, it is rather non-technical: http://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Markets/dp/1400067936/r http://www.amazon.com/Fooled-Randomness-Hidden-Chance-Market... To learn more on how Wall Street deals with the stock market randomness read some books on Time Series analysis and forecasting, e.g the classic http://www.amazon.com/Time-Analysis-Forecasting-Probability-Statistics/dp/0470272848 http://www.amazon.com/Time-Analysis-Forecasting-Probability-... If you are a data scientist in heart read this great Q&A thread: http://www.quora.com/How-do-I-become-a-data-scientist http://www.quora.com/How-do-I-become-a-data-scientist I wish I could help you with a link to a clear non-technical introductory article but this is all I've got. As random as it gets:) Probably some good introductory book on science will fit the bill, science after all deals primarily with randomness. You may want to check out http://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6del-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/dp/0465026567 http://www.amazon.com/G%C3%B6del-Escher-Bach-Eternal-Golden/...