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Index
Title page
Copyright information
Contents
Acknowledgements
Chapter 0: Alea jacta est
Chapter 1: Improbable world
Finding patterns
The patterns of science
The randomness confusion
Weighing up risk
From classical to chaos
Chapter 2: More random than random
The success factor
Random success
Superstition conjures causation
A natural cycle
Chapter 3: A measure for luck
The inhuman economist
Gambling with chance
Chapter 4: It’s all in the stats
What’s it worth?
The law of large numbers
Distributing the outcomes
Chapter 5: The clockwork universe
The universe according to Newton
No need for that hypothesis
Chapter 6: Just three bodies
Relativity becomes special
The eternal triangle
Chapter 7: Chaos!
The unpredictables
The next bestseller
Chapter 8: Statistical substance
Sample selection
Blinded by science
All in the context
Statistics aren’t fair
The rare event
Chapter 9: What does random mean?
Generating randomness
Cherry picking
The unbalanced target
How significant is significant?
Probability on trial
The sources of randomness
Chapter 10: Really random
Into the quantum atom
The light revolution
A case of uncertainty
Chapter 11: No quantum cats
In the quantum tunnel
Dead or alive?
Interpreting the quantum
Chapter 12: Improbable world redux
The quantum mechanical window
Einstein’s hidden truths
Quantum secrecy
Computing with quanta
Beam me up
Chapter 13: Follow the heat
Laying down the law
The law of change
Quantifying disorder
Entropy plays dice
Chapter 14: Maxwell’s demon
Unmixing the mixture
Uniqueness is disorder
The mystery of time
The clockwork runs down
Chapter 15: Crystal balls and winning goats
It’s in the stars
Future vision
A simulated world
Cars and goats
Born on a Tuesday
Chapter 16: The Reverend Bayes and the golden retriever
The case of the informative mug
Good guesses are better than nothing
Mr Bayes’s oracle
Chapter 17: Free will?
My lucky numbers
I had no choice
A spanner in the clockwork
The random deity
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