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The book fascinatingly and easily acquaints everyone with the theory of probability, the theory of random walks, scientific and applied statistics, the history of the development of these all-pervading theories, as well as the importance of chance and regularity and the inevitable confusion between them in our daily life. “Leonard Mlodinov knows how to talk about chance, chance, intuition, luck and other categories with which our life is full. Reading his book is not very easy, because her language is more scientific than popular science, but very, very interesting. also because the past constantly meets the present on its pages. The "past" in this case is the history of the development of mathematical models of the theory of probability and everything connected with it. And the "present" is a lot of vivid examples of the last fifty years illustrating the theoretical provisions science." (A. Trofimov) Translator Dementievskaya O.