Every time we buy a lottery ticket, we know the odds are long. And when someone actually cashes that one-in-a-million winner, it’s a reminder that improbable isn’t the same as impossible. This hour, we’ll take a closer look at the numbers behind unlikely events with mathematician Joseph Mazur, author of “Fluke: The Math and Myth of Coincidence” (Basic Books).
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