BOOK TRAVELS
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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.
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Getting off an aircraft from Egypt at Heathrow several years ago, I spotted a hard-backed book abandoned on a seat. Intending to donate it to a local charity shop I picked it up and thought no more about it until the following day when I opened it and found it to be a book from my local library. I returned the book, related the circumstances and the librarian asked me to wait whilst contact was made with the original borrower. To my astonishment I spoke to a person with my surname who was just about to pluck up the courage to tell the library that he had lost the book!
Date submitted:Sat, 28 Jan 2012 09:02:36 +0000Coincidence ID:5855
