Mind-Bending Math: Riddles and Paradoxes

Mind-Bending Math: Riddles and Paradoxes « Series from 2015

Series from 2015

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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!

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Elementary Math Isn't Elementary

Probability Paradoxes

Strangeness in Statistics

Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion

Infinity Is Not a Number

More Than One Infinity

Cantor's Infinity of Infinities

Impossible Sets

Gödel Proves the Unprovable

Voting Paradoxes

Why No Distribution Is Fully Fair

Games with Strange Loops

Losing to Win, Strategizing to Survive

Enigmas of Everyday Objects

Surprises of the Small and Speedy

Bending Space and Time

Filling the Gap between Dimensions

Crazy Kinds of Connectedness

Twisted Topological Universes

More with Less, Something for Nothing

When Measurement Is Impossible

Banach-Tarski's 1 = 1 + 1

The Paradox of Paradoxes