I skimmed through the extract presented (didn't have time to go into detail) but I don't see a formal definition of any kind presented in the extract. Could you point me to where it is? And if it's not in the extract, then could you quote it here?
Pseudorandomness is not the same thing as randomness but most algorithms today work on pseudorandom numbers so the concept is important. My impression was that that's what you were referring to.
PS :- FYI I didn't downvote your comment. Actually upvoted as your post made me discover some new math (various notions of randomness by kolmogorov, von mises, martin-lof) :)
Pseudorandomness is not the same thing as randomness but most algorithms today work on pseudorandom numbers so the concept is important. My impression was that that's what you were referring to.
PS :- FYI I didn't downvote your comment. Actually upvoted as your post made me discover some new math (various notions of randomness by kolmogorov, von mises, martin-lof) :)