Impossible? : Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums /

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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. W...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Havil, Julian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2011]
Edición:Course Book
Temas:
Mathematics > Miscellanea.
Paradox > Mathematics.
Problem solving > Miscellanea.
MATHEMATICS / Probability & Statistics / General.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. It's Common Knowledge
  • Chapter 2. Simpson's Paradox
  • Chapter 3. The Impossible Problem
  • Chapter 4. Braess's Paradox
  • Chapter 5. The Power of Complex Numbers
  • Chapter 6. Bucking the Odds
  • Chapter 7. Cantor's Paradise
  • Chapter 8. Gamow-Stern Elevators
  • Chapter 9. The Toss of a Coin
  • Chapter 10. Wild-Card Poker
  • Chapter 11. Two Series
  • Chapter 12. Two Card Tricks
  • Chapter 13. The Spin of a Needle
  • Chapter 14. The Best Choice
  • Chapter 15. The Power of Powers
  • Chapter 16. Benford's Law
  • Chapter 17. Goodstein Sequences
  • Chapter 18. The Banach-Tarski Paradox
  • The Motifs
  • Appendix
  • Index

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