Havil Julian:
Impossible?

Surprising Solutions To Counterintuitive Conundrums

University Presses Of California, Columbia And Princeton (United States), 2008
Hardback, 264 pages
Size: 229x152 mm
ISBN: 9780691131313
ISBN-10: 0691131317

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Impossible?

Whenever Forty-second Street in New York is temporarily closed, traffic doesn't gridlock but flows more smoothly - why is that? What can the game of cricket teach us about the surprising behavior of the law of averages? These are some of the counterintuitive mathematical occurrences that readers encounter in this book.

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