Gibilisco S. More Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Brain Teasers

Tab Books, 1990. — 127 p.Here is a collection and discussion of some more puzzles and paradoxes in the mathematical and physical universes. There was considerable interest generated by my first book in this series, Puzzles, Paradoxes, and Brain Teasers, prompting me to write about more bizarre problems and phenomena. And there is more to come.The book begins with some popular and also some lesser-known tricks and baffling realities of mathematics and physics. These are things you can try out on friends at parties, but some of them are more appropriate for figuring out in the library on a day when there isn't much else to do. Such puzzles and paradoxes can begin as a diversion and then evolve to ends in themselves.Some of the more famous, long-standing problems are then examined such as angle trisection, the Parallel Postulate, and Fermat's Last Theorem. The third chapter acknowledges that humans have always sought refuge in the notion that there must be something absolute in the universe — and looks at the aspects of this problem.