Beyond Coincidence: Stories of Amazing Coincidences and the Mystery and Mathematics That Lie Behind Them

by Martin Plimmer and Brian King

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Laura Buxton, aged 10, released a balloon from her garden in Staffordshire, which landed 140 miles away in Wiltshire, in the garden of another Laura Buxton, aged 10.



Coincidence? Or beyond coincidence?



Two sisters driving separate vehicles on a rural highway in Alabama collided head-on, killing both women as they went to see each other.



Is someone playing snap with the universe? Is it the hand of God? Or magic? Or are we being granted an insight into a hyper-connected universe of whose web-like workings even scientists are only vaguely aware?



And what do those scientists say about it? What are the odds against mathematician Ian Stewart being struck by a meteorite moments after discussing the phenomenal odds against such a thing happening? Beyond Coincidence comes up with some fascinating answers.
  • ISBN10 0312340362
  • ISBN13 9780312340360
  • Publish Date 27 December 2005 (first published 4 March 2004)
  • Publish Status Out of Stock
  • Publish Country US
  • Imprint Thomas Dunne Books
  • Format Hardcover
  • Pages 277
  • Language English