Math of the Impossible

Math of the Impossible

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Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? - Netta Schramm

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Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? - Netta Schramm

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Math of the Impossible

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  1. 1 Why don't perpetual motion machines ever work? - Netta Schramm
  2. 2 Newton’s three-body problem explained - Fabio Pacucci
  3. 3 The Infinite Hotel Paradox - Jeff Dekofsky
  4. 4 Exponential Growth: How Folding Paper Can Get You to the Moon
  5. 5 A brief history of banned numbers - Alessandra King
  6. 6 The mathematics of sidewalk illusions - Fumiko Futamura
  7. 7 What is Zeno's Dichotomy Paradox? - Colm Kelleher
  8. 8 The unexpected math behind Van Gogh's "Starry Night" - Natalya St. Clair
  9. 9 How big is infinity? - Dennis Wildfogel
  10. 10 Exploring other dimensions - Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan
  11. 11 Why do airlines sell too many tickets? - Nina Klietsch
  12. 12 Football physics: The "impossible" free kick - Erez Garty
  13. 13 The case of the missing fractals - Alex Rosenthal and George Zaidan
  14. 14 The paradox at the heart of mathematics: Gödel's Incompleteness Theorem - Marcus du Sautoy

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