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Impossible? Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums by Julian Havil

Princeton and Oxford: Princeton University Press, 2008, xi + 235pp., US$27.95, ISBN: 978-0-691-13131-3

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Watkins, J.J. Impossible? Surprising Solutions to Counterintuitive Conundrums by Julian Havil . Math Intelligencer 31, 76–77 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00283-009-9031-4

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