TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mazur,Joseph
TI  - Fluke: the math and myth of coincidence 
SN  - 9780465060955 (hardcover)
PY  - 2016///]
CY  - New York
PB  - Basic Books, a member of the Perseus Books Group
KW  - Coincidence theory (Mathematics)
KW  - Simultaneity (Physics)
KW  - Coincidence
KW  - Chance
N1  - Includes bibliographical references and index; 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
N2  - 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
ER  -