The logic of miracles : making sense of rare, really rare, and impossibly rare events / László Méro ; translated from the Hungarian by Márton Moldovan ; translation edited by David Kramer.

Author: Méro, László, author.

ImprintNew Haven : Yale University Press, [2018]

Imprint2018.

Descriptionxii, 275 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm

Note:Part one. Secular miracles -- On the existence of miracles -- The mild world and the wild world -- The source of miracles: Gödel's idea -- Part two. The mild world -- The power of normal distribution -- The extremities of Mildovia -- The sources of equilibrium -- Part three. The wild world -- The mathematics of the unpredictable -- Scale-invariance -- The levels of wildness -- Life in Wildovia -- Part four. Preparing for the inconceivable -- Adapting to Wildovia -- Antifragility -- Convertible knowledge.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-266) and index.

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