Impossible?: Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive ConundrumsPrinceton University Press, 28/03/2011 - 264 páginas 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. |
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... new favouritesin-waiting—and that Simon Newcomb's observation about his tables of logarithms, which we discuss in chapter 16, will not prevail here! Chapter 1 IT'S COMMON KNOWLEDGE Mathematics is the science which 2 INTRODUCTION.
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CHAPTER 4 Braesss Paradox | 31 |
CHAPTER 5 The Power of Complex Numbers | 39 |
CHAPTER 6 Bucking the Odds | 50 |
CHAPTER 7 Cantors Paradise | 68 |
CHAPTER 12 Two Card Tricks | 131 |
CHAPTER 13 The Spin of a Needle | 146 |
CHAPTER 14 The Best Choice | 165 |
CHAPTER 15 The Power of Powers | 176 |
CHAPTER 16 Benfords Law | 190 |
CHAPTER 17 Goodstein Sequences | 201 |
CHAPTER 18 The BanachTarski Paradox | 210 |
THE MOTIFS | 217 |
CHAPTER 8 GamowStern Elevators | 82 |
CHAPTER 9 The Toss of a Coin | 88 |
CHAPTER 10 WildCard Poker | 103 |
CHAPTER 11 Two Series | 113 |
APPENDIX | 221 |
Index | 233 |
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Impossible?: Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums Julian Havil Pré-visualização limitada - 2008 |
Impossible?: Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums Julian Havil Pré-visualização indisponível - 2011 |