Mathematical Brain Teasers and Logic Puzzles
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
An award-winning author, mathematician, and puzzle enthusiast shows you how to master tricky brain teasers, solve challenging riddles, and increase your chances of winning games.
Syllabus
- By This Professor
- 01: Why We Love Puzzles
- 02: Thinking outside the Box
- 03: You Don’t Need No Algebra!
- 04: Knights, Knaves, and Normals
- 05: Lewis Carroll’s Game
- 06: Question Puzzles and Coercive Logic
- 07: The Saga of the Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever
- 08: The Muddy Children Puzzle
- 09: The Perils of Probability
- 10: A New Look at the Monty Hall Problem
- 11: Arithmetic Amusements
- 12: Algorithmic Puzzles
Taught by
Jason Rosenhouse
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