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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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