عنوان

Impossible? :

شابک

0691131317 (alk. paper)

شابک

9780691131313 (alk. paper)

شماره

dltt

عنوان اصلي

Impossible? :

نام عام مواد

[Book]

ساير اطلاعات عنواني

surprising solutions to counterintuitive conundrums /

نام نخستين پديدآور

Julian Havil

محل نشرو پخش و غیره

Princeton, N.J. :

نام ناشر، پخش کننده و غيره

Princeton University Press,

تاریخ نشرو بخش و غیره

c2008

نام خاص و کميت اثر

xii, 235 p. :

ساير جزييات

ill. ;

ابعاد

24 cm

متن يادداشت

Includes bibliographical references and index

متن يادداشت

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

بدون عنوان

0

متن يادداشت

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? What does the game show Let's Make A Deal reveal about the unexpected hazards of decision-making? What can the game of cricket teach us about the surprising behavior of the law of averages? These are some of the counterintuitive mathematical occurrences that readers encounter in Impossible? Havil ventures further than ever into territory where intuition can lead one astray. He gathers entertaining problems from probability and statistics along with an eclectic variety of conundrums and puzzlers from other areas of mathematics, including classics of abstract math like the Banach-Tarski paradox. These problems range in difficulty from easy to highly challenging, yet they can be tackled by anyone with a background in calculus. And the fascinating history and personalities associated with many of the problems are included with their mathematical proofs. Impossible? will delight anyone who wants to have their reason thoroughly confounded in the most astonishing and unpredictable ways

موضوع مستند نشده

Mathematics, Miscellanea

موضوع مستند نشده

Paradox-- Mathematics

موضوع مستند نشده

Problem solving-- Miscellanea

شماره رده

نشانه اثر

مستند نام اشخاص تاييد نشده

Havil, Julian,1952-

تاريخ عمليات

20130312041650.0

نام الکترونيکي

نوع ماده

[Book]

تكميل شده

Y