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Math--the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions--usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes--conclusions that seem completely unreasonable or just plain impossible but that are nevertheless demonstrably true. Did you know that a losing...

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Autor principal: Havil, Julian (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Princeton, NJ : Princeton University Press, [2010]
Edición:Course Book
Temas:
Mathematical recreations.
Mathematics > Miscellanea.
Paradox > Mathematics.
MATHEMATICS / Applied.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Preface
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction
  • Chapter 1. Three Tennis Paradoxes
  • Chapter 2. The Uphill Roller
  • Chapter 3. The Birthday Paradox
  • Chapter 4. The Spin of a Table
  • Chapter 5. Derangements
  • Chapter 6. Conway's Chequerboard Army
  • Chapter 7. The Toss of a Needle
  • Chapter 8. Torricelli's Trumpet
  • Chapter 9. Nontransitive Effects
  • Chapter 10. A Pursuit Problem
  • Chapter 11. Parrondo's Games
  • Chapter 12. Hyperdimensions
  • Chapter 13. Friday the 13th
  • Chapter 14. Fractran
  • The Motifs
  • Appendix A. The Inclusion-Exclusion Principle
  • Appendix B. The Binomial Inversion Formula
  • Appendix C. Surface Area and Arc Length
  • Index

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