The Liar Paradox And The Towers Of Hanoi: The Ten Greatest Math Puzzles Of All Time

✍ Scribed by Marcel Danesi

Publisher: John Wiley & Sons
Year: 2004
Tongue: English
Leaves: 259
Edition: 1st Edition
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

PUZZLES ARE AS OLD AS HUMAN HISTORY. They are found in cultures throughout the ages. Why is this so? What are puzzles? What do they reveal about the human mind? Do they have any implications for the study of mathematics? This book attempts to answer some of these questions. Its main focus is on showing how certain ideas in mathematics originated in the form of puzzles. I use the word puzzle in its basic sense, to mean a challenging problem that conceals a non obvious answer. I do not use it in the figurative sense of “anything that remains unsolved,” even though the two meanings share a lot of semantic territory, as the mathematician Keith Devlin recently demonstrated in his fascinating book on the seven greatest unsolved mathematical puzzles of our time (The Millennium Problems, Basic Books, 2002).

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Mathematics, Sport And Recreation

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