The Raven’s Hat: Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games eBook

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The Raven’s Hat
Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games
Games that show how mathematics can solve the apparently unsolvable. This book presents a series of engaging games that seem unsolvable–but can be solved when they are translated into mathematical terms. How can players find their ID cards when the cards are distributed randomly among twenty boxes? By applying the theory of permutations. How can a player guess the color of her own hat when she can only see other players’ hats? Hamming codes, which are used in communication technologies. Like magic, mathematics solves the apparently unsolvable. The games allow readers, including university students or anyone with high school-level math, to experience the joy of mathematical discovery.

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The Raven’s Hat: Fallen Pictures, Rising Sequences, and Other Mathematical Games is written by Jonas Peters; Nicolai Meinshausen and published by The MIT Press. The Digital and eTextbook ISBNs for The Raven’s Hat are 9780262362689, 0262362686 and the print ISBNs are 9780262044516, 026204451X.