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The primary objective of this note is to revisit the two envelope problem and propose a simple resolution. It is argued that the paradox arises from the ambiguity associated with the money content $x of the chosen envelope. When X=x is…

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Mr. C. Stephanos posed the following question in the Interm\'ediaire des Math\'ematiciens: "Do there exist polyhedra with invariant facets that are susceptible to an infinite family of transformations that only alter solid angles and…

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A complete solution to the multiplier version of the inverse problem of the calculus of variations is given for a class of hyperbolic systems of second-order partial differential equations in two independent variables. The necessary and…

Differential Geometry · Mathematics 2009-10-16 Matt Biesecker

The classical Apollonius' problem is to construct circles that are tangent to three given circles in a plane. This problem was posed by Apollonius of Perga in his work "Tangencies". The Sylvester problem, which was introduced by the English…

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Professor Sir Karl Popper (1902-1994) was one of the most influential philosophers of science of the twentieth century, best known for his doctrine of falsifiability. His axiomatic formulation of probability, however, is unknown to current…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2014-12-25 Alan B. Whiting

New status in quantum mechanics is connected with recent achievements in the inverse problem. With its help instead of about ten exactly solvable models which serve as a basis of the contemporary education there are infinite (!) number,…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 B. N. Zakhariev , V. M. Chabanov

While Bernoulli's equation is one of the most frequently mentioned topics in Physics literature and other means of dissemination, it is also one of the least understood. Oddly enough, in the wonderful book "Turning the world inside out"…

Popular Physics · Physics 2024-06-19 Mateo Dutra , Álvaro Suárez , Martín Monteiro , Arturo C. Marti

The Sapient Paradox is the apparently unexplainable time delay of several ten thousand years following the arrival of Homo sapiens in Asia and Europe and before the introduction of impressive innovations with the agricultural revolution.…

Popular Physics · Physics 2013-12-06 E. Antonello

The main features of the statistical approach to inverse problems are described on the example of a linear model with additive noise. The approach does not use any Bayesian hypothesis regarding an unknown object; instead, the standard…

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Raymond Smullyan came up with a puzzle that George Boolos called The Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever.[1] The puzzle has truthful, lying, and random gods who answer yes or no questions with words that we don't know the meaning of. The challenge is…

General Mathematics · Mathematics 2026-05-06 Daniel Vallstrom

We analyse an inverse problem for water waves posed by Richard Feynman in the BBC documentary Fun to Imagine. The problem can be modelled as an inverse Cauchy problem for gravity-capillary waves on a bounded domain. We do a detailed…

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Eugene Wigner famously argued for the "unreasonable effectiveness of mathematics" for describing physics and other natural sciences in his 1960 essay. That essay has now led to some 55 years of (sometimes anguished) soul searching ---…

History and Philosophy of Physics · Physics 2017-03-03 Matt Visser

The information-theoretic point of view proposed by Leibniz in 1686 and developed by algorithmic information theory (AIT) suggests that mathematics and physics are not that different. This will be a first-person account of some doubts and…

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This papers aims at revisiting Minkowski space-time with a modified outlook and making it more consistent (III.8). The paper scrutinizes the special case of relativistic hypothesis (STR). The paper tries to solve the problems faced by…

General Physics · Physics 2007-05-24 Aasis Vinayak P. G

Let $\left( X,\left\Vert \cdot\right\Vert_{X}\right) $ and $\left( Y,\left\Vert \cdot\right\Vert_{Y}\right) $ be Banach spaces over $\mathbb{R},$ with $X$ uniformly convex and compactly embedded into $Y.$ The inverse iteration method is…

Analysis of PDEs · Mathematics 2018-10-16 Grey Ercole

The matrix inversion is an interesting topic in algebra mathematics. However, to determine an inverse matrix from a given matrix is required many computation tools and time resource if the size of matrix is huge. In this paper, we have…

Discrete Mathematics · Computer Science 2017-08-28 Thuan Nguyen

The subject of this thesis is in the area of Applied Mathematics known as Inverse Problems. Inverse problems are those where a set of measured data is analysed in order to get as much information as possible on a model which is assumed to…

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The article attempts to demonstrate the rich history of one truly remarkable problem situated at the confluence of probability theory and theory of numbers - finding the probability of co-primality of two randomly selected natural numbers.…

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This text tries to give an elementary introduction to the mathematical properties of infinite sets. The aim is to keep the approach as simple as possible. Advanced knowledge of mathematics is not necessary for a proper understanding, and…

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