Impossible? surprising solutions to counterintuitive conundrums
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? This title includes some of these counterintuitive mathematical occurrences.
eBook, English, ©2008
Princeton University Press, Princeton, N.J., ©2008
Ressources Internet
1 online resource (1 texte électronique (xii, 235 p.)) : ill., fichiers HTML et PDF
9781400829675, 1400829674
780498684
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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