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Fluke : the math and myth of coincidences
- Title
- Fluke : the math and myth of coincidences / Joseph Mazur.
- Author
- Mazur, Joseph.
- Publication
- New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016]
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Details
- Description
- viii, 273 pages : illustrations; 22 cm
- Subject
- Bibliography (note)
- 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.
- Call Number
- JSD 16-246
- ISBN
- 9780465060955
- 0465060951
- LCCN
- 2015043288
- OCLC
- 2015043288
- Author
- Mazur, Joseph.
- Title
- Fluke : the math and myth of coincidences / Joseph Mazur.
- Publisher
- New York : Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, [2016]
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-257) and index.
- Research Call Number
- JSD 16-246