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Title:
Nonplussed! : mathematical proof of implausible ideas
Author:
Havil, Julian, 1952-
ISBN:
9781400837380
Publication Information:
Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (xiii, 196 pages)
Abstract:
Math--the application of reasonable logic to reasonable assumptions--usually produces reasonable results. But sometimes math generates astonishing paradoxes--conclusions that seem completely unreasonable or just plain impossible but that are nevertheless demonstrably true: Conclusions that, for example, tell us that a losing sports team can become a winning one by adding worse players than its opponents. Or that the thirteenth of the month is more likely to be a Friday than any other day. Or that cones can roll unaided uphill. In Nonplussed!--a delightfully eclectic collection of paradoxes fro.
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