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Julian Havil-Impossible__ surprising solutions to counterintuitive conundrums-Princeton University Press (2008) pdf

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Impossible?: Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums by Julian Havil

English | 2008 | ISBN: 0691131317 | 264 pages | PDF | 2,5 MB

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 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?

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