(Read ebook) Nonplussed!: Mathematical Proof of Implausible Ideas
▲ Julian Havil ▲
| #2737635 in Books | 2010-08-22 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 | 9.16 x.61 x6.12l,.69 | File Name: 0691148228 | 216 pages
||0 of 0 people found the following review helpful.| Great book!|By NL|Great book!|24 of 26 people found the following review helpful.| Fascinating|By Robert Pelini|This book will delight readers who like to get their hands into their math. Havil sticks to mostly elementary concepts, avoiding highly abstract fields that would lose most readers. When a subject could go too far||"Nonplussed! is a collection of lovely paradoxes: facts that are provable logically but are nevertheless seriously counterintuitive...It is an exciting book. It should be in every...college library. It would even be the right gift for mathematicians an
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. Did you know 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 ...
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