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Book cover (partial) "In Nonplussed!, popular-math writer Julian Havil delighted readers with a mind-boggling array of implausible yet true mathematical paradoxes. Now Havil is back with Impossible?, another marvellous medley of the utterly confusion, profound, and unbelievable – and all of it mathematically irrefutabile. Whenever Forty-second street in New York is temporarily closed, traffic doesn’t gridlock but flows more smoothly – why is that? Or consider that cities that build new roads can experience dramatic increases in traffic congestion – how is this possible? What does the game show Let’s Make a Deal reveal about the unexpected hazards of decision-making? What can the game of cricket teach us about the surprising behaviour of the law of averages? These are some of the counterintuitive mathematical occurrences that readers encounter in Impossible?"

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