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01956aam a22004098i 4500 001 6F90CAC6F89811E5ADB809B8DAD10320 003 SILO 005 20160402010147 008 151105s2016 nyua b 001 0 eng 010 $a 2015043288 020 $a 0465060951 020 $a 9780465060955 040 $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 14 $a QA273.15 $b .M39 2016 082 04 $a 519.2 $2 23 100 1 $a Mazur, Joseph. 245 10 $a Fluke : $b the math and myth of coincidences / $c Joseph Mazur. 264 1 $a New York : $b Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group, $c [2016] 300 $a viii, 273 pages : $b illustrations ; $c 22 cm. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (pages 237-257) and index. 505 0 $a 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. 520 $a Looks 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 $a Coincidence. 650 0 $a Chance. 650 0 $a Probabilities. 650 0 $a Simultaneity (Physics) 941 $a 8 952 $l ALPE516 $d 20240417014002.0 952 $l USUX851 $d 20200806024656.0 952 $l BOPG851 $d 20181006094219.0 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20180116120335.0 952 $l UQAX771 $d 20161214010333.0 952 $l D8PD522 $d 20160802013130.0 952 $l BAPH771 $d 20160422010054.0 952 $l CAPH522 $d 20160402011604.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=6F90CAC6F89811E5ADB809B8DAD10320Initiate Another SILO Locator Search