Hand, David 1950-

The improbability principle : why incredibly unlikely things keep happening / David Hand. - London : Bantam Press, 2014. - xii, 269 pages : illustrations (black and white) ; 24 cm

Originally published: New York: Scientific American/Farrar, Straus and Giroux.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why is it that incredibly unlikely phenomena actually happen quite regularly and why should we, in fact, expect such things to happen? This book is aimed at anyone with an interest in coincidences, probability or gambling.

9780593072813 (hbk.) 9780593072820 (pbk.)


Probabilities--Popular works.
Chance--Popular works.
Coincidence--Popular works.

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