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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... 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 11 21 31 39 50 68 82 88 Chapter 10 Wild-Card Poker Chapter 11 Two Series Chapter 12 ...
Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums Julian Havil. 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 ...
... chapters so that there is a progression, although this has been particularly difficult to achieve with such a collection of material. Sometimes, in order to ... Chapter 1 IT'S COMMON KNOWLEDGE Mathematics is the science which 2 INTRODUCTION.
... chapter: I know you don't agree... Well, I know you don't agree. The song's title also finds its way into the title of an episode of the NBC sitcom television series Friends, 'The One Where Everybody Finds Out', which was first aired in ...
... are certain that they are wearing a red hat. The group will simply sit in the room, waiting as the clock strikes hour after hour. Those wearing a red hat will see fourteen red hats and those wearing a blue hat will see 6 CHAPTER 1.
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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 |
Outras edições - Ver tudo
Impossible?: Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums Julian Havil Pré-visualização limitada - 2008 |
Impossible?: Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums Julian Havil Pré-visualização indisponível - 2011 |