Impossible?: surprising solutions to counterintuitive conundrums
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Main Author: Havil, Julian (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Princeton, N.J. Princeton University Press ©2008
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Item Description:Includes bibliographical references and index
It's common knowledge -- Simpson's paradox -- The impossible problem -- Braess' paradox -- The power of complex numbers -- Bucking the odds -- Cantor's paradise -- Gamow-Stern elevators -- The toss of a coin -- Wild-card poker -- Two series -- Two card tricks -- The spin of a needle -- The best choice -- The power of powers -- Benford's law -- Goodstein sequences -- The Banach-Tarski paradox
In Nonplussed!, popular-math writer Julian Havil delighted readers with a mind-boggling array of implausible yet true mathematical paradoxes. Now Havil is back with Impossible?, another marvelous medley of the utterly confusing, profound, and unbelievable--and all of it mathematically irrefutable. Whenever Forty-second Street in New York is temporarily closed, traffic doesn't gridlock but flows more smoothly--why is that? Or consider that cities that build new roads can experience dramatic increases in traffic congestion--how is this possible? What does the game show Let's Make A Deal reveal a
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (xii, 235 pages)
ISBN:0691131317
0691150028
1400829674
9780691131313
9780691150024
9781400829675

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