Einstein's riddle : riddles, paradoxes and conundrums to stretch your mind

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Author:

Stangroom, Jeremy.

ISBN:

9781408801499

Personal Author:

Stangroom, Jeremy.

Publication Information:

Physical Description:

144 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm

General Note:

Includes index.

Contents:

Logic and probability -- When reasoning goes wrong -- The real world -- Motion, infinity, and vagueness -- Philosophical conundrums -- Paradoxical all the way down.

Abstract:

Riddles, paradoxes, and puzzles have been confusing and delighting people for millennia. Zeno of Elea wondered how a hare could ever catch a tortoise in a race: every time the hare catches up, the tortoise has moved very slightly ahead. Schrd̲inger had his cat, Bertrand his box, and Russell his paradoxes. These time-honored mind benders have tantalized and mesmerized us for years. Now, in one book, Jeremy Stangroom presents the classics in this field: the Monty Hall Problem; the Liars Paradox; the Hangmans Paradox; and, of course, Einsteins Riddle. By turns infuriating, fascinating, and gloriously satisfying, these puzzles will keep you thinking and guessing from beginning to end. Biography.

Subject Term:

Puzzles.

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Summary

Riddles, paradozes and conundrums have been confusing and confounding people since at least the time of the Ancient Greeks. The eponymous riddle, according to legend, was devised by Albert Einstein as a child. He claimed that only about 2% of the population would be able to work out the correct answer. There are no tricks and there is only one answer. It requires the cool application of logic to solve. And a lot of patience.
Einstein's Riddle features fifty of the toughest logic problems, lateral thinking puzzles, and tests of mental agility. By turns entertaining and infuriating, the puzzles challenge our preconceptions, tell us about how we reason, and provide a rigorous intellectual workout.