Format:
1 Online-Ressource (xii, 235 pages)
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illustrations
Edition:
Online-Ausg.
ISBN:
0691131317
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0691150028
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1400829674
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9780691131313
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9780691150024
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9781400829675
Content:
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
Content:
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
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
,
English
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe Havil, Julian, 1952- Impossible? Princeton, N.J : Princeton University Press, ©2008
Language:
English
URL:
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