Mathematical brain teasers and logic puzzles / Jason Rosenhouse, PhD.
Material type: FilmPublisher number: 9076 | The Teaching CompanySeries: The great courses. Mathematics. Applied mathematics | Great courses (DVD). Science & mathematics ; ; 9076.Publisher: Chantilly, VA : The Teaching Company, [2020]Copyright date: ©2020Description: 2 videodiscs (360 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in. + 1 course guidebook (ii, 199 pages : illustrations ; 19 cm)Content type:- two-dimensional moving image
- video
- videodisc
- 9781644650080
- 1644650088
Item type | Home library | Collection | Call number | Materials specified | Status | Date due | Barcode | Item holds | |
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Adult DVD | Dr. James Carlson Library | DVD | 793.74 M426 | Available | 33111009930443 |
Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:
Professor Jason Rosenhouse presents his favorite brain teasers and logic puzzles. Each lesson starts with a relatively simple puzzle that illustrates a mathematical idea or problem-solving strategy. From there, progress to more challenging problems that will provide hours of amusement. Puzzles include the Bridges of Königsberg, the Monty Hall problem, the 'Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever,' and many more.
Contains 12 lectures (30 min. each).
Course no. 9076.
Course guidebook includes bibliographical references (pages 197-199).
disc 1. Why we love puzzles ; Thinking outside the box ; You don't need no algebra! ; Knights, knaves, and normals ; Lewis Carroll's game ; Question puzzles and coercive logic -- disc 2. The saga of the hardest logic puzzle ever ; The muddy children puzzle ; The perils of probability ; A new look at the Monty Hall problem ; Arithmetic amusements ; Algorithmic puzzles.
Lecturer, Jason Rosenhouse, PhD., James Madison University.
Tap your inner creativity with this thought-provoking tutorial on solving puzzles, cracking brain teasers, and answering logic riddles.
DVD.