Author: Daniel Zaborowski Publisher: Daniel Zaborowski ISBN: Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 45
Book Description
The e-book "Mind-Bending Paradoxes: 50 Puzzles to Challenge Your Thinking" is a comprehensive exploration of paradoxes from different fields of study. The e-book delves into logical paradoxes such as the Liar Paradox, Russell's Paradox, and the Barber Paradox, physical paradoxes like the Heat Death Paradox, and philosophical paradoxes like the Euthyphro Dilemma and the Paradox of the Knower. Additionally, the e-book covers famous paradoxes like the Ship of Theseus, the Trolley Problem, and the Monty Hall Paradox. Throughout the e-book, the reader is presented with a variety of solutions and perspectives for each Paradox which helps to deepen the understanding of these complex problems. The e-book also provides discussion questions and exercises for each paradox to encourage critical thinking and analysis. The e-book aims to provide valuable insights into the limits of human understanding and knowledge and to question the reader's beliefs and challenge their understanding of the world around them. The book concludes with a thank you note to the reader for their engagement and support and encourages them to continue exploring the world of paradoxes and other philosophical, logical, and physical concepts in the future.
Author: Bryan Bunch Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486137937 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 228
Book Description
Stimulating, thought-provoking analysis of the most interesting intellectual inconsistencies in mathematics, physics, and language, including being led astray by algebra (De Morgan's paradox). 1982 edition.
Author: Jeremy Stangroom Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing ISBN: 9781635575866 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 144
Book Description
From the author of Einstein’s Riddle comes a collection of ingenious puzzles that will stimulate your brain while also introducing you to science’s most intriguing concepts, paradoxes, and unsolved conundrums. How can a cat be both dead and alive? Can you travel back in time to kill your own grandfather? How can a particle also be a wave? And where are the aliens? After guiding readers through warm-up logic puzzles designed to sharpen the wits, Jeremy Stangroom tackles time dilation, wave-particle duality, time travel, and quantum entanglement, along with many other scientific phenomena. Engaging your critical thinking skills while at the same time challenging your sense of reality, Einstein’s Twin is a must-have for any avid puzzler’s library.
Author: Jen Pollock Michel Publisher: InterVarsity Press ISBN: 083087092X Category : Religion Languages : en Pages : 221
Book Description
In a world filled with ambiguity, we want faith to act like an orderly set of truth-claims to solve the problems that life throws at us. While there are certainties in Christian faith, at the heart of the Christian story is also paradox, and Jen Pollock Michel helps readers imagine a Christian faith open to mystery. Jesus invites us to abandon the polarities of either and or in order to embrace the difficult, wondrous dissonance of and.
Author: T. H. O’Beirne Publisher: Courier Dover Publications ISBN: 0486246132 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 257
Book Description
These marvelous, stimulating games for the mind include geometric paradoxes, cube and color arrangement puzzles, calendar paradoxes, much more. Detailed solutions prepare readers for puzzles of even greater complexity.
Author: Christopher Jargodzki Publisher: John Wiley and Sons ISBN: 0471569615 Category : Science Languages : en Pages : 325
Book Description
Why is there eight times more ice in Antarctica than in the Arctic? Why can you warm your hands by blowing gently, and cool your hands by blowing hard? Why would a pitcher scuff a baseball?Which weighs more-a pound of feathers or a pound of iron? Let science experts Christopher Jargodzki and Franklin Potter guide you through the curiosities of physics and you'll find the answers to these and hundreds of other quirky conundrums. You'll discover why sounds carry well over water (especially in the summer), how a mouse can be levitated in a magnetic field, why backspin is so important when shooting a basketball, and whether women are indeed as strong as men. With nearly 400 questions and answers on everything from race cars to jumping fleas to vanishing elephants, Mad about Physics presents a comprehensive collection of braintwisters and paradoxes that will challenge and entertain even the brainiest of science lovers. Whether you're a physicist by trade or just want to give your brain a power workout, this collection of intriguing and unusual physics challenges will send you on a highly entertaining ride that reveals the relevance of physics in our everyday lives.
Author: Gianni A. Sarcone Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 0486795659 Category : Games & Activities Languages : en Pages : 116
Book Description
Fun-filled, math-based puzzles include Elephants and Castles, Trianglized Kangaroo, Honest Dice and Logic Dice, Mind-reading Powers, and dozens more. Complete solutions explain the mathematical realities behind the fantastic-sounding challenges.
Author: William Poundstone Publisher: Anchor ISBN: 030776379X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 289
Book Description
This sharply intelligent, consistently provocative book takes the reader on an astonishing, thought-provoking voyage into the realm of delightful uncertainty--a world of paradox in which logical argument leads to contradiction and common sense is seemingly rendered irrelevant.
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan Publisher: Knopf ISBN: 0307962466 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 286
Book Description
Forever Undecided is the most challenging yet of Raymond Smullyan’s puzzle collections. It is, at the same time, an introduction—ingenious, instructive, entertaining—to Gödel’s famous theorems. With all the wit and charm that have delighted readers of his previous books, Smullyan transports us once again to that magical island where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie. Here we meet a new and amazing array of characters, visitors to the island, seeking to determine the natives’ identities. Among them: the census-taker McGregor; a philosophical-logician in search of his flighty bird-wife, Oona; and a regiment of Reasoners (timid ones, normal ones, conceited, modest, and peculiar ones) armed with the rules of propositional logic (if X is true, then so is Y). By following the Reasoners through brain-tingling exercises and adventures—including journeys into the “other possible worlds” of Kripke semantics—even the most illogical of us come to understand Gödel’s two great theorems on incompleteness and undecidability, some of their philosophical and mathematical implications, and why we, like Gödel himself, must remain Forever Undecided!
Author: Daniel Zaborowski
Author: Bryan Bunch
Author: Jeremy Stangroom
Author: Jen Pollock Michel
Author: T. H. O’Beirne
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Author: Christopher Jargodzki
Author: Gianni A. Sarcone
Author: William Poundstone
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan