Fluke the math and myth of coincidence
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 --...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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New York
Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
2016
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Tag hinzufügen | Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Beschreibung: | viii, 273 Seiten Illustrationen, Diagramme 22 cm |
| ISBN: | 9780465060955 978-0-465-06095-5 |