| Description |
1 online resource (xiii, 196 pages) |
| Physical Medium |
polychrome |
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text file |
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Originally published: 2007. |
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Includes index. |
| 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. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
| Subject |
Mathematics -- Miscellanea.
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Mathematics. |
| Genre/Form |
Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Subject |
Mathematical recreations.
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Mathematical recreations. |
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Paradox -- Mathematics.
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Paradox. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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Trivia and miscellanea.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Havil, Julian, 1952- Nonplussed! Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, 2010 9780691148229 (OCoLC)624405630 |
| ISBN |
9781400837380 (electronic book) |
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1400837383 (electronic book) |
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0691148228 (paperback) |
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9780691148229 (paperback) |
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