The Logic of Miracles : Making Sense of Rare, Really Rare, and Impossibly Rare Events.

Cover -- Half Title -- Title -- Copyright -- Contents -- Preface -- Acknowledgments -- PART ONE: SECULAR MIRACLES -- 1 On the Existence of Miracles -- 2 The Mild World and the Wild World -- 3 The Source of Miracles: Gödel's Idea -- PART TWO: THE MILD WORLD -- 4 The Power of the Normal Distribution -- 5 The Extremities of Mildovia -- 6 The Sources of Equilibrium -- PART THREE: THE WILD WORLD -- 7 The Mathematics of the Unpredictable -- 8 Scale-Invariance -- 9 The Levels of Wildness -- 10 Life in Wildovia -- PART FOUR: PREPARING FOR THE INCONCEIVABLE -- 11 Adapting to Wildovia -- 12 Antifragility -- 13 Convertible Knowledge -- Epilogue -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Z.

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