The improbability principle
why coincidences miracles and rare events happen every day
The improbability principle
why coincidences miracles and rare events happen every day
Book - 2014
"An eye-opening and engrossing look at rare moments, why they occur, and how they shape our world"--
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| Barcode | Status | Material Type | CallNumber |
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| 37413315044513 | متاح | Non-fiction | 519.2 HAND |
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| التنسيق: | كتاب |
| اللغة: | English |
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New York :
Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux,
2014.
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| الطبعة: | First edition. |
| الموضوعات: |
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| 245 | 1 | 4 | |a The improbability principle : |b why coincidences, miracles, and rare events happen every day / |c David J. Hand. |
| 250 | |a First edition. | ||
| 264 | 1 | |a New York : |b Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux, |c 2014. | |
| 300 | |a xii, 269 pages : |b illustrations ; |c 24 cm. | ||
| 336 | |a text |2 rdacontent | ||
| 337 | |a unmediated |2 rdamedia | ||
| 338 | |a volume |2 rdacarrier | ||
| 520 | |a "An eye-opening and engrossing look at rare moments, why they occur, and how they shape our world"-- |c Provided by publisher. | ||
| 504 | |a Includes bibliographical references and index. | ||
| 520 | |a A statistician presents his theory that extraordinary and rare events are actually commonplace and cites stories of two-time lottery winners and other bizarre coincidences to support his theory that unlikely events statistically must happen. | ||
| 505 | 0 | |a The mystery -- A capricious universe -- What is chance? -- The law of inevitability -- The law of truly large numbers -- The law of selection -- The law of the probability lever -- The law of near enough -- The human mind -- Life, the universe, and everything -- How to use the improbatility principle. | |
| 650 | 0 | |a Probabilities. | |
| 998 | |a 2014.02.12 | ||
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