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52-0322 QA273 2013-34007 CIP Hand, David J. The improbability principle: why coincidences, miracles, and rare events happen every day. Scientific American/ Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2014. 269p index ISBN 9780374175344, $27.00; ISBN 9780374711399 e-book, contact publisher for price
Authors writing about mathematics for a popular audience must strike a delicate balance between accessibility and precision. Hand (emer., Imperial College London, UK) does...