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Title:
Impossible? : surprising solutions to counterintuitive conundrums
Author:
Havil, Julian, 1952-
ISBN:
9781400829675
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xii, 235 pages) : illustrations
Abstract:
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. 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 a.
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