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Recreational mathematics or puzzles with serious mathematical content. Note that math contest problems are generally considered off-topic.

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Russell's definite description and vacuous truth: a puzzle?

I'm not sure this question will stay open, but here I am and this is a question that leads to some interesting issues about reference and language. (But probably it should have been asked on philosoph …
Joel David Hamkins's user avatar
17 votes

A game on sets of reals

This is a great question! I've now managed to eliminate the use of countable choice. Theorem. Without using any choice principle, it follows that player I can have no winning strategy in the game. …
Joel David Hamkins's user avatar
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A function that is defined everywhere but has unknown values

Consider the function $f:n\mapsto k$, where the power set $2^{\aleph_n}$ has the form $\aleph_{\omega\beta+k}$ for some natural number $k$. This function is everywhere defined, since the power set $ …
Joel David Hamkins's user avatar
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Gödel, Escher, Bach: b is a power of 10.

This is too long for a comment, but it seems that your formula is not correct. In fact, your formula is true in the natural numbers for any value of $a$ simply by taking $b=0$, which fulfills the clau …
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Who wins two player sudoku?

Update. I made a blog post about Infinite Sudoku and the Sudoku game, following up on ideas in this post and the comments below. I claim that the second player wins the even-sized empty Sudoku boa …
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