The liar paradox and the towers of Hanoi : the 10 greatest puzzles of all time /

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Κύριος συγγραφέας: Danesi, Marcel, 1946-
Μορφή: Βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: Hoboken, N.J. : Wiley, c2004.
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Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • The riddle of the sphinx
  • Problem-solving
  • Insight thinking
  • Alcuin's river-crossing puzzle
  • The Josephus and Kirkman school puzzles
  • Combinatorics
  • Fibonacci's rabbit puzzle
  • Patterns in the Fibonacci sequence
  • Sequences and series
  • Euler's königsberg bridges puzzle
  • Graph theory and topology
  • Impossibility
  • Guthrie's four-color problem
  • Euclidean method
  • Proof
  • Lucas's tower of hanoi puzzle
  • Perfect numbers and mersenne primes
  • Infinity
  • Loyd's get off the earth puzzle
  • Dissection
  • Optical illusions, ambiguous figures, and impossible figures
  • Epimenides's liar paradox
  • Undecidability
  • Limits
  • The Lo Shu magic square
  • "Magical" number patterns
  • Algorithms
  • The Cretan labyrinth
  • Coordinate geometry
  • The Pythagoreans
  • Answers and explanations.