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The Raven's Hat

The Raven's Hat

Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games

by Jonas PetersNicolai Meinshausen and Malte Meinshausen
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Publication Date: 13/04/2021

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Games that show how mathematics can solve the apparently unsolvable.

This book presents a series of engaging games that seem unsolvable—but can be solved when they are translated into mathematical terms. How can players find their ID cards when the cards are distributed randomly among twenty boxes? By applying the theory of permutations.

How can a player guess the color of her own hat when she can only see other players’ hats? Hamming codes, which are used in communication technologies. Like magic, mathematics solves the apparently unsolvable. The games allow readers, including university students or anyone with high school-level math, to experience the joy of mathematical discovery.

ISBN:
9780262044516
9780262044516
Category:
Mathematics
Format:
Paperback
Publication Date:
13-04-2021
Language:
English
Publisher:
MIT Press
Country of origin:
United States
Pages:
192
Dimensions (mm):
245x138x14mm
Weight:
0.29kg

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