by Joaquim Marques · Gradiva · tapa blanda · ISBN 9789896161361
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«O Acaso» is the popular science essay by Joaquim Marques de Sá, published by Gradiva in paperback (260 pages, in Portuguese).
Essay exploring how chance marks daily life: the probability of winning games, the weight of DNA tests in the presumption of innocence, premonitory dreams, and streaks in games. It presents the laws of chance in nature and research into the possibilities of learning the rules of a universe governed by chance.
Published in 2006. Part of the Ciência Aberta collection. Its original title is 'Chance: The Life of Games and the Game of Life'.
For readers interested in science and probability, and in how chance conditions everyday life.
