In the third year of my undergraduate degree, I took a first year course called Intro to Math Reasoning. It was a wonderful course taught by Don Robinson and if you are lucky enough to still be at STU, I highly reccommend that you take it even if you are one of those crazy people [...]
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Paradoxes
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged math, paradox, school, zeno on September 23, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
The “Monty Hall” Problem and “Deal or No Deal”
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged deal or no deal, goats, math, monty hall, tv on January 22, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
For those of you who don’t know, the Monty Hall problem goes like this:
Imagine you are on a game show where you must choose from three doors. Behind one door is a car and behind the other two are goats (why goats? who the eff knows, but every time I’ve seen this problem, it’s ALWAYS [...]
