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Fluke: the math and myth of coincidence

By Joseph , Mazur

Book information

Publisher
Basic Books
Year
2016
ISBN
9780465040001, 9780465060955, 0465060951
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
3 MB (3277165 bytes)
Pages
viii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm\0
Time added
2020-07-26 19:24:52
Chance;Coincidence;Coincidence theory (Mathematics

Description

Introduction -- The stories -- Exceptional moments -- The girl from Petrovka and other benign coincidences -- Meaningful coincidences -- The mathematics -- What are the chances? -- Bernoulli's gift -- Long strings of heads -- Pascal's triangle -- The problem with monkeys -- The analysis -- Enormity of the world -- The stories of chapter 2 revisited -- The head-scratchers -- Evidence -- Discovery -- Risk -- Psychic power -- Sir Gawain and the Green Knight -- Epilogue.;Looks at coincidences and unlikely occurrences, delving into the mathematical concepts of probability and sharing stories of striking flukes and coincidences from around the world.

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