Title Nonplussed! : mathematical proof of implausible ideas / Julian Havil.

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Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010.

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Description	1 online resource (xiii, 196 pages)
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Contents	Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Preface; Acknowledgements; Introduction; CHAPTER 1 Three Tennis Paradoxes; CHAPTER 2 The Uphill Roller; CHAPTER 3 The Birthday Paradox; CHAPTER 4 The spin of a Table; CHAPTER 5 Derangements; CHAPTER 6 Conway's Chequerboard Army; CHAPTER 7 The Toss of a Needle; CHAPTER 8 Torricell's Trumpet; CHAPTER 9 Nontransitive Effects; CHAPTER 10 A Pursuit Problem; CHAPTER 11 Parrondo's Games; CHAPTER 12 Hyperdimensions; CHAPTER 13 Friday the 13th; CHAPTER 14 Fractran; THE MOTIFS; APPENDIX A The Inclusion-Exclusion Principle.
Summary	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.
Note	Print version record.
Subject	Mathematics -- Miscellanea.
	Mathematical recreations.
	Paradox -- Mathematics.
	MATHEMATICS -- Pre-Calculus.
	MATHEMATICS -- Reference.
	MATHEMATICS -- Essays.
	SCIENCE -- Applied Sciences.
	Mathematical recreations. (OCoLC)fst01012120
	Mathematics. (OCoLC)fst01012163
	Matematik -- populärvetenskap.
	Matematiska lekar.
Genre/Form	Trivia and miscellanea. (OCoLC)fst01921748
	Electronic books.
Other Form:	Print version: Havil, Julian, 1952- Nonplussed! Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010 9780691148229 (OCoLC)624405630
ISBN	9781400837380 (electronic bk.)
	1400837383 (electronic bk.)

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