Archive for March, 2008

DQ. We Are Not Liars

March 26, 2008 · answers, guests, logic, math puzzles, Mathfactor Events, paradoxes, The Mathcast

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.

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DP. Would Chuck Wood

March 19, 2008 · logic, math puzzles, The Mathcast

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?

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DO. Proofs Puzzles and Conundra!

March 14, 2008 · answers, guests, math puzzles, The Mathcast, Topology and geometry

Burger answers his puzzle and tells us more…

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DN. Ed Burger’s Trouser Puzzle

March 7, 2008 · Favorites, guests, math puzzles, The Mathcast, Topology and geometry

Prof Ed Burger of Williams College discusses the mathematics of proofs and puzzles, and a problem with his pants.

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