A Cultural Paradox Fun in Mathematics by Jeffrey A. Zilahy - HTML preview

INDEX:

42, 79

Abacus 59

Artificial Intelligence 94 – 95

Avdeyev, Andrei 67

Bacon, Kevin 43

Big Bang 81

Binary number system 52-53

Biology 18, 71

Birthday Paradox 13-14

Blackjack 44

Blazek, David 25

Architecture 90

Caltech 72

Cantor Transfinite Numbers 16

Casinos 44-45

Celebrity 30-34

Chailtin, Gregory 98

Chemistry 18

Chess 64

Chinese 51

Chomsky, Noam 71

Consciousness 74 - 75

Craps 44

Crow 25

Cryptography 56

DARPA 92 - 93

E8 40-41

e = mc2 57-58

Education 37, 76-77

Erdos, Paul 43

Escher, M.C. 60

Euler 84

Food 47

Fractals 65-66

Gaussian Copula 36-37

Genius 38-40

Geometry, Euclidean 22, 65

Gödel, Kurt 46

Greeks 24, 51, 73

Hardware 9

Humor 19-21

Imaginary Numbers 66

Incompleteness Theorem 46, 98

Infinity 15-16, 78

Internet 10, 76, 92, 103-104

Jokes 19-21

Jourdain's Card Paradox 17

Large Hadron Collider 41

Legend of the Ambalappuzha Paal Payasam 64

Light Years 80 - 81

Lisi, Garrett 40-41

Mathematica 59

Mathers, Marshall 15

Martial Arts 96 - 97

MC Plus + 15, 105

Millenium Prize Problems 49-51

M.I.T. 76 – 77, 90

Mobius Strip 83

Monty Hall (Problem) 11-12

Music 82, 105

Natural Numbers 15-16

New Kind of Science 26-27

Numb3rs 72

Omega number 98 - 99

Optical Illusions 91

Origami 61

Perelman, Grigori 50

Permutations 54-55

Physics 18, 40-41, 57-58

Pi 38, 42, 84

Pigeonhole Principle 14

Poker 44-45

Probability 11-14

Psychology 18

Q.E.D. 105

Quipu 59

Quotations 85 - 89

Randomness 56, 98

Real numbers 15-16, 30

Sabermetrics 63

Sagan, Carl 102

Sample Trashing 28

Singularity Institute 94- 95

Software 9, 59

Sports 62-63

Statistical Brick Wall 28

Sumerians 24

Symbols 73

Syntax 71

Theory of Everything 40-41, 46, 98-99

1337 43, 61

Time 67-70, 80 - 81

Topology 50

United Nations 102

Watson 95

Wolfram Alpha 27, 100 - 101

Wolfram, Stephen 26-27, 100

Wolfram Tones 82

Zeno's Paradox 78

Zero 51, 84