Optimal play in ‘Guess Who?’ #openaccess in The Mathematical Gazette
Suggests using questions with an embedded paradox to produce three responses from your opponent - yes, no, or argh paradox head explodes - allowing you to narrow down the suspects more quickly.
www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Can you solve this puzzle?
Robin McLean explores the algebra of constructing puzzles like this in a new #openaccess article in The Mathematical Gazette.
Read here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....
Peter Rowlett
Next Thursday 25th June, I'm doing a livestream with @Ayliean.bsky.social about aperiodic tilings - we'll be chatting about substitution tilings and matching rules, and chatting about the recent #BeachSpectres project! If you'd like to watch, simply join our Finite Group community: finitegroup.co.uk
Could we rely more on everyday intuitions when thinking about abstract ideas? Does the formalism seen when teaching match how mathematicians think about mathematics? Letters to the editor in response (in support or arguing against!) are welcome via [email protected]
Quick update from #BeachSpectres from @ayliean.bsky.social - join Finite Group for free to access the video.
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Ooo, my piece has appeared online here
Mathematical Gazetteer of the British Isles
David Singmaster's Gazetteer, Green's Windmill, and more.
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The authors say their optimal strategy uses nothing "more advanced than induction and a recursion relation based on elementary probability... Hence Guess Who? could guide an introduction to #GameTheory to interested students through a ‘real-world’ game."
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Maths on Holiday - new issue of the IMA members’ magazine, in which I wrote about David Singmaster’s Gazeteer, Green’s Windmill, that time Sam Hansen came to town, etc.
Teachers! We're running a day of year 12 maths workshops on 25th June on campus in Sheffield city centre. Bring a group? They'll see the university campus and enjoy taking part in maths workshops run by university lecturers.
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Katie Steckles
We prove an optimal strategy for the children's game Guess Who? assuming the official rules are in use and that both players ask ‘classical’ questions with bipartite responses. Applying a technique...
The UK Government have announced the new set of King’s Birthday Honours. Here’s our selection of particularly mathematical entries for this year. If you spot any more, let us know in the comments a…
Free paper available from The Mathematical Gazette:
Why do disjoint cycles commute? Or, why do mathematicians not like horsies and doggies?
by Douglas Hofstadter, author of 'Gödel, Escher, Bach' - which won a Pulitzer Prize in 1980.
Read it here: www.tandfonline.com/doi/epdf/10....
