„Restricted Choice“ in Bridge
adminThe principle of "restricted choice" in the card game Bridge made it to Wikipedia. The article is somewhat mysterious, however, and obscures what is really happening. I never infer with…
Problems with Infinity
Another old blog entry, again about the foundations of math. I recently came across one of the many videos on Youtube dealing with the problem of infinity. At the end…
EMT – Simulation of the Two Child Problem
The two-child problem is a problem in probability theory with a solution that seems paradox on first sight. I wrote about that problem before. Let me repeat the explanation and…
Problem mit Zahlen
Wenn sogar das Bundesministerium für Gesundheit das nicht kann ...
Gödel’s Mysterious Incompleteness Theorem
In my book, Gödel's incompleteness theorem is one of the greatest achievements of human thinking. It crashed into mathematics like a hammer when it was published. It destroyed the firm…
High School Students proved Pythagoras
Recently, some YouTube videos came up in my inbox that refer to an article in the Scientific American. It seems, I cannot read this article without a subscription. But there…
Suggestions on Math Education
The following text is from my old math blog. I try to preserve some of this content in the new blog. Here is an interesting article in the Scientific American…
Die indische Elite-Auslese
Dieser Beitrag ist inspiriert von einem Video von Prof. Bernhard Krötz, in dem er den Niedergang der deutschen Mathematikerziehung und Schulbildung beklagt und der indischen Eliteauslese gegenüberstellt. Ich weiß nicht,…