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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... Problem solving–Miscellanea. I. Title. QA99.H379 2008 510–dc22 2007051792 British Library Cataloguing-in-Publication Data A catalogue record for this book is available from the British Library This book has been composed in LucidaBright ...
... Problem Chapter 4 Braess's Paradox 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 ...
... problem, we will consider a situation reminiscent of the above in that a striking clock counts out seemingly irrelevant time periods but in which a seemingly irrelevant statement is replaced by a seemingly unhelpful condition ...
... to graduate school (P. J. Bickel, E. A. Hammel and J. W. O'Connell, 1975, Sex bias in graduate admissions: data from Berkeley, Science 187:398–404). Chapter 3 THE IMPOSSIBLE PROBLEM If you think it's simple, 20 CHAPTER 2.
... problem. Bjarne Strustrup Double Dutch The Dutch mathematician, mathematical historian and educator Hans Freudenthal ... problem number 223 in the Dutch Nieuw Archief voor Wiskunde (New Archive for Mathematics), and in its 21 CHAPTER 3 ...
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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 |