The Raven's Hat: Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games - Brossura

Peters, Jonas; Meinshausen, Nicolai

 
9780262044516: The Raven's Hat: Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games
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ISBN 10: 026204451X ISBN 13: 9780262044516
Casa editrice: The MIT Press, 2021

Sinossi

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.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Jonas Peters is Professor of Statistics at the University of Copenhagen. Nicolai Meinshausen is Professor of Statistics at ETH (Swiss Federal Institute of Technology) in Zurich.

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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.

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Editore
The MIT Press
Data di pubblicazione
2021
Lingua
Inglese
ISBN 10 
026204451X
ISBN 13 
9780262044516
Rilegatura
Copertina flessibile
Disegnatore
Meinshausen Malte
Numero edizione
1
Numero di pagine
192
Contatto del produttore
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