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_aMazur, Joseph, _eauthor. |
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_aFluke : _bthe math and myth of coincidence / _cJoseph Mazur. |
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_aNew York : _bBasic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, _c[2016] |
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| 264 | 4 | _c©2016 | |
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_aviii, 273 pages : _billustrations ; _c22 cm |
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| 504 | _aIncludes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 505 | 0 | _aIntroduction -- 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. | |
| 520 | _aLooks at coincidences and unlikely occurrences, delving into the mathematical concepts of probability and sharing stories of striking flukes and coincidences from around the world. | ||
| 650 | 0 | _aCoincidence theory (Mathematics) | |
| 650 | 0 | _aSimultaneity (Physics) | |
| 650 | 0 | _aCoincidence. | |
| 650 | 0 | _aChance. | |
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