Download or read book Mind Bending Math Riddles and Paradoxes written by and published by . This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the timeless riddles and paradoxes that have confounded the greatest philosophical, mathematical, and scientific minds in history. Stretching your mind to try to solve a puzzle, even when the answer eludes you, can help sharpen your mind and focus - and it's an intellectual thrill!
Download or read book Impossible Folding Puzzles and Other Mathematical Paradoxes written by Gianni A. Sarcone and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Do all problems have solutions? Is complexity synonymous with difficulty? This original collection of mathematical puzzles and paradoxes proves that things aren't always what they seem! Readers will discover that nothing is as easy or as difficult as it looks and that puzzles can have one, several, or no solutions. The fun-filled puzzles begin with The Tricky Hole, a challenge that involves pushing a large coin through a small hole in a sheet of paper without ripping or making any cuts in the paper. Advance to the Elastic Playing Card, in which it's possible to cut a hole into a playing card big enough for someone to climb through. Other incredible puzzles include Elephants and Castles, Trianglized Kangaroo, Honest Dice and Logic Dice, Mind-reading Powers, and dozens more. Complete solutions explain the mathematical realities behind the fantastic-sounding challenges.
Download or read book Riddles in Mathematics written by Eugene P Northrop and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-08-20 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Math enthusiasts of all ages will delight in this collection of more than 200 riddles drawn from every mathematical discipline. Only an elementary background is needed to enjoy and solve the tremendous variety of puzzles, which include riddles based on geometry, trigonometry, algebra, infinity, probability, and logic. Includes complete solutions and 113 illustrations"--
Download or read book The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi written by Marcel Danesi and published by Trade Paper Press. This book was released on 2004-08-27 with total page 264 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A walk through history's most mind-boggling puzzles Ever since the Sphinx asked his legendary riddle of Oedipus, riddles, conundrums, and puzzles of all sizes have kept humankind perplexed and amused. The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi takes die-hard puzzle mavens on a tour of the world's most enduringly intriguing braintwisters, from K?nigsberg's Bridges and the Hanoi Towers to Fibonacci's Rabbits, the Four Color Problem, and the Magic Square. Each chapter introduces the basic puzzle, discusses the mathematics behind it, and includes exercises and answers plus additional puzzles similar to the one under discussion. Here is a veritable kaleidoscope of puzzling labyrinths, maps, bridges, and optical illusions that will keep aficionados entertained for hours. Marcel Danesi (Etobicoke, ON, Canada) is the author of Increase Your Puzzle IQ
Download or read book The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi written by Marcel Danesi and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-01-06 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A walk through history's most mind-boggling puzzles Ever since the Sphinx asked his legendary riddle of Oedipus, riddles, conundrums, and puzzles of all sizes have kept humankind perplexed and amused. The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi takes die-hard puzzle mavens on a tour of the world's most enduringly intriguing braintwisters, from K?nigsberg's Bridges and the Hanoi Towers to Fibonacci's Rabbits, the Four Color Problem, and the Magic Square. Each chapter introduces the basic puzzle, discusses the mathematics behind it, and includes exercises and answers plus additional puzzles similar to the one under discussion. Here is a veritable kaleidoscope of puzzling labyrinths, maps, bridges, and optical illusions that will keep aficionados entertained for hours. Marcel Danesi (Etobicoke, ON, Canada) is the author of Increase Your Puzzle IQ
Download or read book Riddles in Mathematics written by Eugene Purdy Northrop and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Presents over two hundred brain-teasers drawn from arithmetic, algebra, geometry, trigonometry and calculus.
Download or read book Puzzles and Paradoxes written by T. H. O’Beirne and published by Courier Dover Publications. This book was released on 2017-08-10 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These marvelous, stimulating games for the mind include geometric paradoxes, cube and color arrangement puzzles, calendar paradoxes, much more. Detailed solutions prepare readers for puzzles of even greater complexity.
Download or read book Riddles in Mathematics written by Eugene Northrop and published by . This book was released on 1967 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Impossible written by Julian Havil and published by Princeton University Press. This book was released on 2008-04-21 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 'Nonplussed!', popular-math writer Julian Havil presented a mind-boggling array of implausible yet true mathematical paradoxes. This book presents another medley of the utterly confusing, profound, and unbelievable, and all of it mathematically irrefutable.
Download or read book Mind Bending Paradoxes written by Daniel Zaborowski and published by Daniel Zaborowski. This book was released on with total page 45 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The e-book "Mind-Bending Paradoxes: 50 Puzzles to Challenge Your Thinking" is a comprehensive exploration of paradoxes from different fields of study. The e-book delves into logical paradoxes such as the Liar Paradox, Russell's Paradox, and the Barber Paradox, physical paradoxes like the Heat Death Paradox, and philosophical paradoxes like the Euthyphro Dilemma and the Paradox of the Knower. Additionally, the e-book covers famous paradoxes like the Ship of Theseus, the Trolley Problem, and the Monty Hall Paradox. Throughout the e-book, the reader is presented with a variety of solutions and perspectives for each Paradox which helps to deepen the understanding of these complex problems. The e-book also provides discussion questions and exercises for each paradox to encourage critical thinking and analysis. The e-book aims to provide valuable insights into the limits of human understanding and knowledge and to question the reader's beliefs and challenge their understanding of the world around them. The book concludes with a thank you note to the reader for their engagement and support and encourages them to continue exploring the world of paradoxes and other philosophical, logical, and physical concepts in the future.
Download or read book Riddles in Mathematics written by and published by . This book was released on 1944 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The G delian Puzzle Book written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Gödel's incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and other concepts. No background in formal logic necessary.
Download or read book Paradoxes in Mathematics written by Stanley J. Farlow and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-04-23 with total page 182 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Compiled by a prominent educator and author, this volume presents an intriguing mix of mathematical paradoxes — phenomena with surprising outcomes that can be resolved mathematically. Students and puzzle enthusiasts will get plenty of enjoyment mixed with a bit of painless mathematical instruction from 30 conundrums, including The Birthday Paradox, Aristotle's Magic Wheel, and A Greek Tragedy.
Download or read book Sleight of Mind written by Matt Cook and published by MIT Press. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This “fun, brain-twisting book . . . will make you think” as it explores more than 75 paradoxes in mathematics, philosophy, physics, and the social sciences (Sean Carroll, New York Times–bestselling author of Something Deeply Hidden). Paradox is a sophisticated kind of magic trick. A magician’s purpose is to create the appearance of impossibility, to pull a rabbit from an empty hat. Yet paradox doesn’t require tangibles, like rabbits or hats. Paradox works in the abstract, with words and concepts and symbols, to create the illusion of contradiction. There are no contradictions in reality, but there can appear to be. In Sleight of Mind, Matt Cook and a few collaborators dive deeply into more than 75 paradoxes in mathematics, physics, philosophy, and the social sciences. As each paradox is discussed and resolved, Cook helps readers discover the meaning of knowledge and the proper formation of concepts—and how reason can dispel the illusion of contradiction. The journey begins with “a most ingenious paradox” from Gilbert and Sullivan’s Pirates of Penzance. Readers will then travel from Ancient Greece to cutting-edge laboratories, encounter infinity and its different sizes, and discover mathematical impossibilities inherent in elections. They will tackle conundrums in probability, induction, geometry, and game theory; perform “supertasks”; build apparent perpetual motion machines; meet twins living in different millennia; explore the strange quantum world—and much more.
Download or read book Puzzles Paradoxes and Brain Teasers written by Stan Gibilisco and published by . This book was released on 1988 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Einstein s Riddle written by Jeremy Stangroom and published by Bloomsbury USA. This book was released on 2009-05-01 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A unique compilation of logical teasers and lateral-thinking problems designed to stretch your brainpower and strengthen your mind. Riddles, paradoxes, and conundrums have been confusing and confounding people since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks. The eponymous riddle, according to legend, was devised by Albert Einstein as a child. He claimed that only about 2% of the population would be able to work out the correct answer. There are no tricks and there is only one answer. It requires the cool application of logic to solve. And a lot of patience. Einstein's Riddle features fifty of the toughest logic problems, lateral thinking puzzles, and tests of mental agility. By turns entertaining and infuriating, the puzzles challenge our preconceptions, tell us about how we reason, and provide a rigorous intellectual workout.
Download or read book A Mathematical Miscellany in Four Parts written by and published by . This book was released on 1730 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
