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Author Mazur, Joseph, author.

Title Fluke : the math and myth of coincidences / Joseph Mazur.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016]
Bookmark link: https://library.naperville-lib.org:444/record=b1673665~S1
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 Nichols Adult Nonfiction  519.2 MAZ    AVAILABLE
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Description viii, 273 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-257) and index.
Contents 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.
Subject Coincidence.
Chance.
Probabilities.
Simultaneity (Physics)
ISBN 9780465060955 (hardcover)
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