Mind-Bending Math: Riddles and Paradoxes
Offered By: The Great Courses Plus
Course Description
Overview
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
- By This Professor
- 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
Taught by
David Kung
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