CCBB: Joe Mazur - Fluke - A Statistician Views Coincidences

JOSEPH MAZUR is Professor Emeritus of Mathematics at Marlboro
College, in Marlboro, Vermont.
He holds a Ph.D. in Mathematics from M.I.T., is a recipient of
fellowships from the Guggenheim, Bogliasco, and Rockefeller
Foundations, among others. His works have appeared in Nature, The
New York Times, The Guardian, The Wall Street Journal, Slate,
Science, and other publications. He has been profiled in media
venues such as NPR's "The Hidden Brain" and PRI's "Innovation Lab",
CBS, the BBC, Vox, Radio Australia, Radio Ireland, and dozens of
others. He is the author of Euclid in the Rainforest: Discovering
Universal Truth in Mathematics (Finalist of the 2005 PEN/Martha
Albrand Award and chosen as one of Choice’s 2005 Outstanding
Academic Titles of the Year); The Motion Paradox: The 2,500-Year
Old Puzzle Behind All the Mysteries of Time and Space (Choice’s
2007 Outstanding Academic Titles of the Year); What’s Luck Got to
Do with It? The History, Mathematics, and Psychology behind the
Gambler’s Illusion; Enlightening Symbols: A Short History of
Mathematical Notation and Its Hidden Powers; and, his most recent
book, Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence. His books have been
translated into over a dozen languages.

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