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In __The Improbability Principle__, the renowned statistician David J. Hand argues that extraordinarily rare events are anything but. In fact, they’re commonplace. Not only that, we should all expect to experience a miracle roughly once every month. But Hand is no believer in superstitions, prophecies, or the paranormal. His definition of “miracle” is thoroughly rational. No mystical or supernatural explanation is necessary to understand why someone is lucky enough to win the lottery twice, or is destined to be hit by lightning three times and still survive. All we need, Hand argues, is a firm grounding in a powerful set of laws: the laws of inevitability, of truly large numbers, of selection, of the probability lever, and of near enough. Together, these constitute Hand’s groundbreaking Improbability Principle. And together, they explain why we should not be so surprised to bump into a friend in a foreign country, or to come across the same unfamiliar word four times in one day. Hand wrestles with seemingly less explicable questions as well: what the Bible and Shakespeare have in common, why financial crashes are par for the course, and why lightning does strike the same pl

Who reads The Improbability Principle : Why Coincidences, Miracles, and Rare Events Happen Every Day?

Author

David J. Hand

Publisher

Scientific American Library; Scientific American; Scientific American / Farrar, Straus and Giroux

Published

2014

Language

EN

ISBN

9780593072820

Category

science

Subjects

Mathematics, Fiction, Science

Rating

3.69 / 5 (763 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14