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100 1 $aMazur, Joseph,$eauthor.
245 10 $aFluke :$bthe math and myth of coincidences /$cJoseph Mazur.
264 1 $aNew York :$bBasic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group,$c[2016]
300 $aviii, 273 pages :$billustrations ;$c22 cm
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337 $aunmediated$bn$2rdamedia
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504 $aIncludes bibliographical references (pages 237-257) 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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