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Mind-Bending Math: Riddles and Paradoxes

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Want to stretch your brain in surprising ways? If you like to think, solve riddles, and exercise your brain, this captivating course examining logic-based brain teasers is for you.

Syllabus

  • 01: Everything in This Lecture Is False
  • 02: Elementary Math Isn't Elementary
  • 03: Probability Paradoxes
  • 04: Strangeness in Statistics
  • 05: Zeno's Paradoxes of Motion
  • 06: Infinity Is Not a Number
  • 07: More Than One Infinity
  • 08: Cantor's Infinity of Infinities
  • 09: Impossible Sets
  • 10: Godel Proves the Unprovable
  • 11: Voting Paradoxes
  • 12: Why No Distribution Is Fully Fair
  • 13: Games with Strange Loops
  • 14: Losing to Win, Strategizing to Survive
  • 15: Enigmas of Everyday Objects
  • 16: Surprises of the Small and Speedy
  • 17: Bending Space and Time
  • 18: Filling the Gap between Dimensions
  • 19: Crazy Kinds of Connectedness
  • 20: Twisted Topological Universes
  • 21: More with Less, Something for Nothing
  • 22: When Measurement Is Impossible
  • 23: Banach-Tarski's 1 = 1 + 1
  • 24: The Paradox of Paradoxes
  • By This Professor

Taught by

David Kung

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