"Intriguingly, the mathematics of randomness, chaos, and order also furnishes what may be a vital escape from absolute…"

"The theory of probability combines commonsense reasoning with calculation. It domesticates luck, making it subservien…"

"Ramsey theory implies that complete disorder is impossible. Somehow, no matter how complicated, chaotic, or random so…"

"Most coincidences are simply chance events that turn out to be far more probable than many people imagine."

"Tversky was fond of describing his work as “debugging human intuition.”...Tversky could establish again and again the…"

"Indeed, mathematics is full of conjectures—questions waiting for answers—with no assurance that the answers even exist."

"The aim of science is to reduce the scope of chance."

"Randomness, chaos, uncertainty, and chance are all a part of our lives. They reside at the ill-defined boundaries bet…"

"More often than not, a piece of mathematics worked out years before—and believed to be totally without practical valu…"

"To an increasing number of practitioners, computer simulations rooted in mathematics represent a third way of doing s…"