Books written by William Poundstone
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Head in the Cloud: Why Knowing Things Still Matters When Facts Are So Easy to Look Up
A few keystrokes can summon almost any information in seconds. Why should we bother learning facts at all? Bestselling author William Poundstone confronts that timely question in Head in the Cloud.
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The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge
Even so, most patterns are not still lifes. To qualify as a still life, every on pixel must have two or three on neighbors, and no off pixel can have three on neighbors. Otherwise, parts of the pattern would die out or grow. stable as ...
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The Recursive Universe: Cosmic Complexity and the Limits of Scientific Knowledge
“Martin Gardner tells of one computer specialist who has a special panic button under his desk: whenever a supervisor comes into the room, the specialist can wipe the display screen clean . . ' Gamow, George. One Two Three.
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Are You Smart Enough to Work at Google?: Trick Questions, Zen-like Riddles, Insanely Difficult Puzzles, and Other Devious Interviewing Techniques...
Are you Smart Enough to Work at Google? guides readers through the surprising solutions to dozens of the most challenging interview questions.
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Fakealoo!: Pastiches of Harry Stephen Keeler's Inimitable Style Taken from the Keeler News (more Or Less)
Muddled Mind: Complete Works of Ed Wood, Jr. — David Hayes and Hayden Davis deconstruct the life and works of a mad genius. Gadsby — A lipogram (a novel without the letter E). Ernest Vincent Wright's last work, published in 1939 right ...
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How Do You Fight a Horse-Sized Duck?: Secrets to Succeeding at Interview Mind Games and Getting the Job You Want
That leaves 30 cents, and we need to make that from 4 coins that have to be nickels and/or dimes. Easy: 2 nickels and 2 dimes are 4 coins worth 30 cents. No other combination of nickels and dimes would work. That gives a solution: 45 ...
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Prisoner's Dilemma
She counts out three pennies and seven nickels, and computes that she has thirtyeight cents. Then she finds out that she has miscounted and there are only six nickels. Does this mean her arithmetic is wrong? Of course not.
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How Would You Move Mount Fuji?: Microsoft's Cult of the Puzzle -- How the World's Smartest Companies Select the Most...
How Would You Move Mount Fuji? is an indispensable book for anyone in business. Managers seeking the most talented employees will learn to incorporate puzzle interviews in their search for the top candidates.
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Bigger Secrets: More Than 125 Things They Prayed You'd Never Find Out
... Mark Tomorsky , Michael J. Hockinson , T. A. Egan , Paul Selwyn , Inas Elattar , Anthony J. Caristi , Ben Redner ... Esther Gross , Barbara Ely , Ty Osborn , Laurie Tucker , Larry Hussar , David Epstein , Mark Rubin , Arthur Stark ...
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Rock Breaks Scissors: A Practical Guide to Outguessing and Outwitting Almost Everybody
Matson, John (2012). “The Not So Hot Hand. ... “Can Benford's Law Be Used in Forensic Accounting?” Balance Sheet, Jun. 1993, 7–8. ______(1996). “A Taxpayer Compliance Application of Benford's Law.” Journal of the American Taxation ...
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选举中的谋略与博弈: 为什么选举不是公平的
本书向人们解释了为什么计分投票制被视作是所有投票规则中最公平的, 同时评估了改变美国人的投票方式将会面临怎样的障碍.
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知识大迁移: 移动时代知识的真正价值
Ben shu fen wei xin xi bao zha shi dai,Wei shen me ren que yue lai yue wu zhi;Na xie zhi shi rang ni geng fu you,Geng xing fu;Zai wu zhi de shi jie,Ru he cheng wei ying jia san bu fen,Nei rong bao kuo:yun duan da nao yu li xing wu zhi shi ...
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囚徒的困境: 冯·诺依曼,博弈论和原子弹之谜
本书作者围绕冯·诺伊曼的生平和博弈论这两条主线,生动地讲述了冯·诺伊曼的一生,博弈论的历史,原子弹的发明过程,以及冷战初期国际政治舞台上的矛盾和冲突.
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囚犯的兩難: 賽局理論,數學天才馮紐曼,以及原子彈的謎題
囚犯的兩難: 賽局理論,數學天才馮紐曼,以及原子彈的謎題
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The Doomsday Calculation: How an Equation that Predicts the Future Is Transforming Everything We Know About Life and the Universe
The same month Danish physicist Holger Bech Nielsen, a pioneer of string theory, outlined the idea in a physics paper, “Random Dynamics and Relations Between the Number of Fermion Generations and the Fine Structure Constants,” in the ...
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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System That Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
Tuohy, John William (2002). “New York Stories” at www.americanmafia. com/Feature_Articles_184.html. van der Sluis, Pieter Jelle, and Nolke Posthuma (2003). “A Reality Check on Hedge Fund Returns” (working paper). papers.ssrn.com/sol3/ ...
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Priceless: The Myth of Fair Value (and How to Take Advantage of It)
Input to Output 49 49 Mob types: See Tuohy 2001. Goffstein took over the Riviera after his boss, Gus Greenbaum, was murdered by the Chicago mob (apparently). Murphy biography: See Wikipedia entry, “Charles B. G. Murphy,” en.wikipedia ...
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Gaming the Vote: Why Elections Aren't Fair (and What We Can Do About It)
Their dream choice , unquestionably , would have been William F. Buckley , Jr. Founder of the National Review , Buckley had run for New York City mayor as a Conservative in 1965 and had charmed even the liberal press with his wit .
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CARL SAGAN. UNA VIDA EN EL COSMOS
[249] El trabajo de Sagan sobre la paradoja del joven Sol débil tal vez impresionó a Urey: Stanley Miller, entrevista. ... Edgar Rubin (18861951), en las que alternativamente se perciben una copa o dos rostros idénticos enfrentados.
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Fortune's Formula: The Untold Story of the Scientific Betting System that Beat the Casinos and Wall Street
Weil, J. R., and W. T. Brannon (2004). Con Man: A Master Swindler's Own Story. New York: Broadway. ... Ziemba, William T. (2003). The Stochastic Programming Approach to Asset, Liability, and Wealth Management. Charlottesville, Va.