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.
Overview
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
