Fluke : the math and myth of coincidence / Joseph Mazur.
Mazur, Joseph, author.
2016
QA612.24 .M39 2016eb
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Title Fluke : the math and myth of coincidence / Joseph Mazur.
Author Mazur, Joseph, author.
ISBN 9780465040001 (electronic book)
9780465060955
Published New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, 2016.
Copyright ©2016
Language English
Description 1 online resource (viii, 273 pages) : illustrations
Call Number QA612.24 .M39 2016eb
Dewey Decimal Classification 514/.2
Bibliography, etc. Note Includes bibliographical references and index.
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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.

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