disc 1. Everything in this lecture is false -- Elementary math isn't elementary -- Probability paradoxes -- Strangeness in statistics -- Zeno's paradoxes of motion -- Infinity is not a number ; disc 2. More than one infinity -- Cantor's infinity of infinities -- Impossible sets -- Godel proves the unprovable -- Voting paradoxes -- Why no distribution is fully fair ; disc 3. Games with strange loops -- Losing to win, strategizing to survive -- Enigmas of everyday objects -- Surprises of the small and speedy -- Bending space and time -- Filling the gap between dimensions ; disc 4. Crazy kinds of connectedness -- Twisted topological universes -- More with less, something for nothing -- When measurement is impossible -- Banach-Tarski's 1 = 1 + 1 -- The paradox of paradoxes.
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