Tell a friend about this book...
Friend's Email:
Subject: I have found a book that I think you would enjoy
|
|
The Universe in a Handkerchief Lewis Carroll's Mathematical Recreations Games Puzzles and Word Plays Author: Suppose you have a cloth bag with one marble insideeither black or white, you don't know which. You add a white marble, shake the bag, and take a marble at random. It's white. What are the odds that the remaining marble is white? Obviously 1/2, right? Wrong. The correct answer is 2/3. This is just one of the scores of intriguing puzzles and par... more »
|