Editor’s Note: Published in 1957, this article comes from Martin Gardner’s legendary Scientific American column Mathematical Games. Read more in our special digital issue, Fun and Games. A paradox is ...
We play a game, where I am the host and you are the player. As the host, I have two cards, and I write down a number on each card. The numbers are unequal. You can't see the numbers, and the object of ...
https://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7312/szpi21376.3 The eminent American philosopher Willard Van Orman Quine defined a paradox as “just any conclusion that at first ...
In 1996 Spanish physicist Juan Parrondo made an incredible discovery: sometimes two games that each end in loss individually can be combined into a winning strategy. This paradox is no mere ...
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