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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Havil, Julian, 1952-
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2008.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Subjects:
Problem solving.
Mathematics.
MATHEMATICS > Applied.
MATHEMATICS > Essays.
MATHEMATICS > Reference.
MATHEMATICS > Pre-Calculus.
Resolution de probleme > Miscellanees.
Paradoxe > Mathematiques.
Mathematiques > Miscellanees.
Problem solving > Miscellanea.
Paradox > Mathematics.
Mathematics > Miscellanea.
Trivia and miscellanea.
Electronic books.
Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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