Just Odds: A Guide to J.E. Littlewood's Law of Miracles

Just Odds: A Guide to J.E. Littlewood's Law of Miracles

How and Why Strange Things Happen at Least Once Every 35 Days in Your Life

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Read by: Steve Stansell

Language: English

Length: 21 minutes

Publisher: MSAC Philosophy Group

Release date: 2018-01-29

According to Littlewood's Law of Miracles (based on the theory of large numbers and probability), you should expect something truly unusual to happen every 35 days - so strange, in fact, that it will look like a miracle. This book explains how the improbable is probable by focusing on desultory decussation (where two random events from an interesting intersection - a synchronicity) and Littlewood's work in number theory at Cambridge University in the last century. Also explains such concepts as apohenia and patternicity.