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Carlo Frabetti

Jun 03 2022
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The Frobenius coin

By Carlo Frabetti Portal

What is the largest amount of money that cannot be obtained by collecting coins of a certain value?

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May 27 2022
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D'Alembert and the calculus of probabilities

By Carlo Frabetti Portal

The great mathematician and encyclopedist questioned conventional probability theory.

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May 20 2022
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Deceptive odds

By Carlo Frabetti Portal

In no field of mathematics are paradoxes as frequent and disconcerting as in the calculation of probabilities.

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May 13 2022
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The exception and the rule

By Carlo Frabetti Portal

In the rigorous domain of mathematics, the exception does not confirm the rule, but rather invalidates it.

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May 06 2022
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Timbiriche

By Carlo Frabetti Portal

Timbiriche or 'pipopipette' is a pencil and paper game created by the great French mathematician Édouard Lucas

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Apr 29 2022
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Mondrian Rectangles

By Carlo Frabetti Portal

Piet Mondrian's abstract compositions lend themselves to interesting mathematical considerations.

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Apr 22 2022
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The fly and the bicycle

By Carlo Frabetti Portal

In relation to the problem of the fly and the bicycles, there is an amusing anecdote attributed to the great mathematician John Von Neumann

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Apr 15 2022
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McGuffin Problems

By Carlo Frabetti Portal

The concept of the cinematic MacGuffin, introduced by Alfred Hitchcock, is applicable to some problems of logic and mathematics.

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Apr 08 2022
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Ehrhart polynomials

By Carlo Frabetti Portal

The French mathematician Eugène Ehrhart generalized the work of Pick and Reeve to n-dimensional polytopes.

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Apr 01 2022
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The tetrahedron and the snake

By Carlo Frabetti Portal

Reeve's tetrahedron and Winkler's snake: two simple mathematical objects with interesting implications

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