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Impossible?: Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums

By Julian Havil
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By Julian Havil

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In Nonplussed!, popular-math writer Julian Havil delighted readers with a mind-boggling array of implausible yet true mathematical paradoxes. Now Havil is back with Impossible?, another marvelous medley of the utterly confusing, profound, and unbelievable—and all of it mathematically irrefutable.

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