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• Title:Impossible? : surprising solutions to counterintuitive conundrums / Julian Havil.
  
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• Author/Creator:Havil, Julian, 1952-
  
• Published/Created:Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008.
  

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  • Location:MAA LIBRARY (IKB) stacksWhere is this?
    
  • Call Number: QA99 .H379 2008
    
  • Number of Items:1
    
  • Status:Available
    

   
• Library of Congress Subjects:Mathematics--Miscellanea.
  Paradox--Mathematics.
  Problem solving--Miscellanea.
  
• Description:xii, 235 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
  
• Notes:Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
• ISBN:9780691131313 (alk. paper)
  0691131317 (alk. paper)
  
• Contents:Ch. 1. It's Common Knowledge
  Ch. 2. Simpson's Paradox
  Ch. 3. Impossible Problem
  Ch. 4. Braess's Paradox
  Ch. 5. Power of Complex Numbers
  Ch. 6. Bucking the Odds
  Ch. 7. Cantor's Paradise
  Ch. 8. Gamow-Stern Elevators
  Ch. 9. Toss of a Coin
  Ch. 10. Wild-Card Poker
  Ch. 11. Two Series
  Ch. 12. Two Card Tricks
  Ch. 13. Spin of a Needle
  Ch. 14. Best Choice
  Ch. 15. Power of Powers
  Ch. 16. Benford's Law
  Ch. 17. Goodstein Sequences
  Ch. 18. Banach-Tarski Paradox
  Motifs.