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Index
Cover
BY THE SAME AUTHOR
Title Page
Copyright
Epigraph
Dedication
Contents
Preface
1 Two’s Company, Three’s a Crowd
2 It’s a Small World After All
3 Monkey Business
4 Independence Day
5 Rugby and Relativity
6 Wagons Roll
7 A Sense of Proportion
8 Why Does the Other Queue Always Move Faster?
9 Pylon of the Month
10 A Sense of Balance
11 Bridging That Gap
12 On the Cards
13 Tally Ho
14 Relationships
15 Racing Certainties
16 High Jumping
17 Superficiality
18 VAT in Eternity
19 Living in a Simulation
20 Emergence
21 How to Push a Car
22 Positive Feedback
23 The Drunkard’s Walk
24 Faking It
25 The Flaw of Averages
26 The Origami of the Universe
27 Easy and Hard Problems
28 Is This a Record?
29 A Do-It-Yourself Lottery
30 I Do Not Believe It!
31 Flash Fires
32 The Secretary Problem
33 Fair Divorce Settlements: the Win–Win Solution
34 Many Happy Returns
35 Tilting at Windmills
36 Verbal Conjuring
37 Financial Investment with Time Travellers
38 A Thought for Your Pennies
39 Breaking the Law of Averages
40 How Long are Things Likely to Survive?
41 A President who Preferred the Triangle to the Pentagon
42 Secret Codes in Your Pocket
43 I’ve Got a Terrible Memory for Names
44 Calculus Makes You Live Longer
45 Getting in a Flap
46 Your Number’s Up
47 Double Your Money
48 Some Reflections on Faces
49 The Most Infamous Mathematician
50 Roller Coasters and Motorway Junctions
51 A Taylor-made Explosion
52 Walk Please, Don’t Run!
53 Mind-reading Tricks
54 The Planet of the Deceivers
55 How to Win the Lottery
56 A Truly Weird Football Match
57 An Arch Problem
58 Counting in Eights
59 Getting a Mandate
60 The Two-headed League
61 Creating Something out of Nothing
62 How to Rig an Election
63 The Swing of the Pendulum
64 A Bike with Square Wheels
65 How Many Guards Does an Art Gallery Need?
66 …and What About a Prison?
67 A Snooker Trick Shot
68 Brothers and Sisters
69 Playing Fair with a Biased Coin
70 The Wonders of Tautology
71 What a Racket
72 Packing Your Stuff
73 Sent Packing Again
74 Crouching Tiger
75 How the Leopard Got His Spots
76 The Madness of Crowds
77 Diamond Geezer
78 The Three Laws of Robotics
79 Thinking Outside the Box
80 Googling in the Caribbean–The Power of the Matrix
81 Loss Aversion
82 The Lead in Your Pencil
83 Testing Spaghetti to Destruction
84 The Gherkin
85 Being Mean with the Price Index
86 Omniscience can be a Liability
87 Why People aren’t Cleverer
88 The Man from Underground
89 There are No Uninteresting Numbers
90 Incognito
91 The Ice Skating Paradox
92 The Rule of Two
93 Segregation and Micromotives
94 Not Going with the Flow
95 Venn Vill They Ever Learn
96 Some Benefits of Irrationality
97 Strange Formulae
98 Chaos
99 All Aboard
100 The Global Village
Notes
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