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18 | Shafi Goldwasser and the good joke

Night Science

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Mathematicians Are Not Very Orderly and Organized

i grew up with a dad who would always, on long car rides would ask us these logical, mathematical puzzles. And each one has the same flavor where it just seems impossible, and then you can find a kind of trick. Once you have that trick, it actually becomes very simple, almost trivial, once you know the trick. i think everybody starts from the concrete. Let's just try to think, what are we trying to do here? Let's understand the corp difficulty. Let's understand why does it seem difficult. What is the problem really abouty,. so itmay thasimilar to this puzzle solely although my parents really were not puzzles solving, giving or solving. You talked

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