The Winner’s Curse : Paradoxes and Anomalies of Economic Life Ric
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By Smith, Kenwyn K.; Berg, David N.
Aha! Gotcha: Paradoxes to Puzzle and Delight by Martin Gardner Former library book; Pages can have notes/highlighting. Spine may show signs of wear. ~ ThriftBooks: Read More, Spend Less
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Paradoxes of Prosperity: Why the New Capitalism Benefits All. by Coyle, Diane.
A nice touch in this textbook is the quick start guide for each chapter.
Take an apple and cut it into five pieces. Would you believe that these five pieces can be reassembled in such a fashion so as to create two apples equal in shape and size to the original?. Neither did Leonard Wapner, author of The Pea and the Sun, when he was first introduced to the Banach-Tarski paradox, which asserts exactly such a notion.
Title : Sleight of Mind: 75 Ingenious Paradoxes in Mathematics, Physics, and Philosophy (Mit Press). Pages and dust cover are intact and not marred by notes or highlighting. About Bellwether Books. Condition : Very Good.
Author:Sainsbury, R. M. Many paradoxes raise serious philosophical problems, and they are associated with crises of thought and revolutionary advances. The expanded and revised third edition of this intriguing book considers a range of knotty paradoxes including Zeno's paradoxical claim that the runner can never overtake the tortoise, a new chapter on paradoxes about morals, paradoxes about belief, and hardest of all, paradoxes about truth.