Book “Paradoxes”
Title:
Paradoxes
Subtitle:
Situations that seems to defy intuition
Language:
English
Contents:
- Chapter: Introduction
- Paradox
- List of paradoxes
- Paradoxical laughter
- Chapter: Decision theory
- Abilene paradox
- Chainstore paradox
- Exchange paradox
- Kavka's toxin puzzle
- Necktie paradox
- Chapter: Economy
- Allais paradox
- Arrow's impossibility theorem
- Bertrand paradox
- Demographic-economic paradox
- Dollar auction
- Downs–Thomson paradox
- Easterlin paradox
- Ellsberg paradox
- Green paradox
- Icarus paradox
- Jevons paradox
- Leontief paradox
- Lucas paradox
- Metzler paradox
- Paradox of thrift
- Paradox of value
- Productivity paradox
- St. Petersburg paradox
- Chapter: Logic
- All horses are the same color
- Barbershop paradox
- Carroll's paradox
- Crocodile Dilemma
- Drinker paradox
- Infinite regress
- Lottery paradox
- Paradoxes of material implication
- Raven paradox
- Unexpected hanging paradox
- What the Tortoise Said to Achilles
- Chapter: Mathematics
- Accuracy paradox
- Apportionment paradox
- Banach–Tarski paradox
- Berkson's paradox
- Bertrand's box paradox
- Bertrand paradox
- Birthday problem
- Borel–Kolmogorov paradox
- Boy or Girl paradox
- Burali-Forti paradox
- Cantor's paradox
- Coastline paradox
- Cramer's paradox
- Elevator paradox
- False positive paradox
- Gabriel's Horn
- Galileo's paradox
- Gambler's fallacy
- Gödel's incompleteness theorems
- Interesting number paradox
- Kleene–Rosser paradox
- Lindley's paradox
- Low birth weight paradox
- Missing square puzzle
- Paradoxes of set theory
- Parrondo's paradox
- Russell's paradox
- Simpson's paradox
- Skolem's paradox
- Smale's paradox
- Thomson's lamp
- Two envelopes problem
- Von Neumann paradox
- Chapter: Miscellaneous
- Bracketing paradox
- Buridan's ass
- Buttered cat paradox
- Lombard's Paradox
- Mere addition paradox
- Navigation paradox
- Paradox of the plankton
- Temporal paradox
- Tritone paradox
- Voting paradox
- Chapter: Philosophy
- Fitch's paradox of knowability
- Grandfather paradox
- Liberal paradox
- Moore's paradox
- Moravec's paradox
- Newcomb's paradox
- Omnipotence paradox
- Paradox of hedonism
- Paradox of nihilism
- Paradox of tolerance
- Predestination paradox
- Zeno's paradoxes
- Chapter: Physics
- Algol paradox
- Archimedes paradox
- Aristotle's wheel paradox
- Bell's spaceship paradox
- Bentley's paradox
- Black hole information paradox
- Braess's paradox
- Cool tropics paradox
- D'Alembert's paradox
- Denny's paradox
- Ehrenfest paradox
- Elevator paradox
- EPR paradox
- Faint young Sun paradox
- Fermi paradox
- Feynman sprinkler
- Gibbs paradox
- Hardy's paradox
- Heat death paradox
- Irresistible force paradox
- Ladder paradox
- Loschmidt's paradox
- Mpemba effect
- Olbers' paradox
- Ontological paradox
- Painlevé paradox
- Physical paradox
- Quantum pseudo-telepathy
- Schrödinger's cat
- Supplee's paradox
- Tea leaf paradox
- Twin paradox
- Chapter: Self-reference
- Barber paradox
- Berry paradox
- Epimenides paradox
- Exception paradox
- Grelling–Nelson paradox
- Intentionally blank page
- Liar paradox
- Opposite Day
- Paradox of the Court
- Petronius
- Quine's paradox
- Richard's paradox
- Self-reference
- Socratic paradox
- Yablo's paradox
- Chapter: Vagueness
- Absence paradox
- Bonini's paradox
- Code-talker paradox
- Ship of Theseus