Perplexing Paradoxes Unraveling Enigmas in the World Around Us【電子書籍】[ George G. Szpiro ]

＜p＞Why does it always seem like the elevator is going down when you need to go up? Is it really true that 0.99999 . . . with an infinite number of 9s after the decimal point, is equal to 1? What do tea leaves and river erosion have in common, per Albert Einstein? Does seeing a bed of red flowers help prove that all ravens are black? Can we make sense of a phrase like “this statement is unprovable”?＜/p＞ ＜p＞Exploring these questions and many more, George G. Szpiro guides readers through the puzzling world of paradoxes, from Socratic dialogues to the Monty Hall problem. ＜em＞Perplexing Paradoxes＜/em＞ presents sixty counterintuitive conundrums drawn from diverse areas of thoughtーnot only mathematics, statistics, logic, and philosophy but also social science, physics, politics, and religion. Szpiro offers a brisk history of each paradox, unpacks its inner workings, and considers where one might encounter it in daily life. Ultimately, he argues, paradoxes are not simple brain teasers or abstr．．．楽天市場のショップで商品詳細の続きを見る