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V., could you please not crosspost to so many groups? Puzzles
fit better in rec.puzzles than the sci.* groups, I think.
Spoilers for several questions below quoted text. V. Karlamov posts:
> New questions about mathematics and logic:
>
> 1. Grew up in a very respectable family. Received magnificent
> education. Mathematical genius. At the age of 21 wrote a thesis on
> Newton's binomial, which had brought him world-wide acclaim. At the age
> of 22 - chairman of a math department at a university. Several years
> later moved to London. In 1891 was killed in Switzerland under tragic
> circumstances. What's his name?
>
> 2, The term "algebra" was first used by the persian mathematiican
> al-Khorezmi. But his own name also gave rise to a math term. Which?
>
> 3. Give the number of the formula that has killed 27 people, none of
> whom were mathematicians or soldiers.
>
> 4. Rumors define algebraic topologists as people who have problems at
> breakfast because they can't distinguish between these 2 objects.
>
> 5. Finish the thought: There are three types of mathematiicans: those
> who can count to three, ....
>
> 6. Great mathematicians can be split into two categories: those who
> have this type of mind and those who don't. What am I talking about?
>
> 7. Name a 3-word phrase that summarizes Goedel's idea, which he had
> borrowed from cretins.
>
> 8. Winkpedia defines Russell's barber paradox as:
>
> en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox
>
> "Barber paradox: The barber who shaves all men who don't shave
> themselves, and no-one else."
>
> Winkpedia is dead wrong. There is no paradox there whatsoever. Why?
>
1. Moriarty.
2. Algorithm.
3. -
4. Doughnut, coffee cup.
5. And those who can't.
6. Mmm. Those who split people into two categories and those who don't?
7. -
8. With that wording, it is only a paradox if the barber is a "man",
and the word could be being used in the sense of an adult male.
--
Mark Brader "As penance, I suppose I should read the standard
Toronto again, but I've already lost as much hair as
msb@xxxxxxx I can afford." -- Tom Kelly
My text in this article is in the public domain.
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