A mathematical study of terrorist attacks need not leave us fearing the worst, says Philip Ball.
Karl Marx believed that history unfolded according to an underlying law.
Positivist philosopher Auguste Comte suggested that there are robust laws of social behaviour.
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Ball, P. Don't panic, it might never happen. Nature (2005). https://doi.org/10.1038/news050214-20
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