Neil Sloane of ATT Labs shares some his favorite integer sequences from his online encyclopedia!
Recaman’s Sequence is especially perplexing! Sloane asks: does every number eventually appear?
(No one yet knows the answer!)
We explore Barry Cipra’s Tag Deal a bit more…
Mathematics writer Barry Cipra shows us Tag Deal, a simple but perplexing puzzle with cards.
We present a recording of Raymond Smullyan’s lecture at the Gathering for Gardner, March 30, 2008; Newcomb’s paradox really is a stumper.
We catch up with Raymond Smullyan, author of many fantastic books on logic, puzzles and paradoxes at this year’s Gathering for Gardner!
Frank Morgan chats about math and gives us the solution to his bubble puzzle. If you’re in the area, don’t miss his lecture, Thursday April 10, at 7:30 pm in POSC 211!
Frank Morgan of Williams College asks “What is the shape of a double bubble?”
photo: Jeff Bauer
We discuss, among other things, whether all mathematicians are liars.
Send us your favorite paradoxes of this kind and we’ll report back on April 15.
We consider that perennial spring conundrum: Would a woodchuck chuck her own wood if she would chuck wood for exactly those woodchucks who would not chuck their own wood?
Burger answers his puzzle and tells us more…
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