Impossible? : surprising solutions to counterintuitive conundrums /

Impossible? : surprising solutions to counterintuitive conundrums /

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Bibliographic Details
Author / Creator:	Havil, Julian, 1952-
Imprint:	Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c2008.
Description:	xii, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Language:	English
Subject:	Mathematics -- Miscellanea. Paradox -- Mathematics. Problem solving -- Miscellanea. Mathematics. Miscellanea.
Format:	Print Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/7136300

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ISBN:	9780691131313 (alk. paper) 0691131317 (alk. paper)
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index.

Table of Contents:

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1. It's Common Knowledge
Chapter 2. Simpson's Paradox
Chapter 3. The Impossible 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
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 16. Benford's Law
Chapter 17. Goodstein Sequences
Chapter 18. The Banach-Tarski Paradox
The Motifs
Appendix
Index