Fluke: the math and myth of coincidence

Introduction

The stories

Exceptional moments

The girl from Petrovka and other benign coincidences

Meaningful coincidences

The mathematics

What are the chances?

Bernoulli's gift

Long strings of heads

Pascal's triangle

The problem with monkeys

The analysis

Enormity of the world

The stories of chapter 2 revisited

The head-scratchers

Evidence

Discovery

Risk

Psychic power

Sir Gawain and the Green Knight

Epilogue.