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Mark Brader wrote:
> 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.
>
Yes.
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> 2. Algorithm.
>
Yes.
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> 4. Doughnut, coffee cup.
>
Yes.
>
> 5. And those who can't.
>
Yes.
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> 6. Mmm. Those who split people into two categories and those who don't?
>
Don't think so. Don't understand. Greek to me.
>
> 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.
>
Yep. The barber can be any woman you want. Winkpedia screwed up.
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