Havil Impossible?

Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2967-5
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 264 Seiten

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Autoren/Hrsg.

Havil, Julian

Fachgebiete

• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Numerik und Wissenschaftliches Rechnen Angewandte Mathematik, Mathematische Modelle
• Mathematik | Informatik Mathematik Stochastik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments xi

Introduction 1

Chapter 1: It's Common Knowledge 3

Chapter 2: Simpson's Paradox 11

Chapter 3: The Impossible Problem 21

Chapter 4: Braess's Paradox 31

Chapter 5: The Power of Complex Numbers 39

Chapter 6: Bucking the Odds 50

Chapter 7: Cantor's Paradise 68

Chapter 8: Gamow-Stern Elevators 82

Chapter 9: The Toss of a Coin 88

Chapter 10: Wild-Card Poker 103

Chapter 11: Two Series 113

Chapter 12: Two Card Tricks 131

Chapter 13: The Spin of a Needle 146

Chapter 14: The Best Choice 165

Chapter 15: The Power of Powers 176

Chapter 16: Benford's Law 190

Chapter 17: Goodstein Sequences 201

Chapter 18: The Banach-Tarski Paradox 210

The Motifs 217

Appendix 221

Index 233

Über Autor(innen)

Julian Havil is a retired former master at Winchester College, England, where he taught mathematics for thirty-three years. In addition to Nonplussed!, he is the author of Gamma: Exploring Euler's Constant (both Princeton).