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Fluke : chance, chaos, and why everything we do matters
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Title
Fluke : chance, chaos, and why everything we do matters / Brian Klaas.
ISBN
9781668006528
1668006529
9781668055847
1668055848
9781668006542
Edition
First Scribner hardcover edition.
Publication
New York : Scribner, 2024.
Copyright Notice Date
©2024
Physical Description
ix, 323 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Summary
A social scientist dispels people's tidy versions of reality and delves deeply into the theories of random chance and chaos to demonstrate that the world really works through random events that can alter the trajectory of our lives.
Other formats
Online version: Klaas, Brian, 1986- Fluke. First Scribner hardcover edition. New York : Scribner, 2024
Format
Books
Language
English
Added to Catalog
March 20, 2024
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 269-305) and index.
Contents
Changing anything changes everything
Everything doesn't happen for a reason
Why our brains distort reality
The human swarm
Heraclitus rules
The storytelling animal
The lottery of Earth
Everyone's a butterfly
Of clocks and calendars
The emperor's new equations
Could it be otherwise?
Why everything we do matters.
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