MATC Math Club presents Probability Puzzlers
December 7, 2007 | Editor| December 12, 2007 | ||
| 3:30 pm |
Probability Puzzlers, Math Club’s 68th Monthly Presentation
Please join us. Please encourage your students to attend this event on Wednesday, December 12, 3:30 p.m. in Room 209.
Professor Steven Post, Edgewood College will present “Probability Puzzlers”
Questions involving probability can be both fun and maddening. They can be fun because they’re easy to state and only elementary mathematics is needed to solve them. They can be maddening because their solutions are sometimes so surprising and subtle. In this talk he discusses some probability puzzlers, starting with the famous “Monty Hall Problem,” which puzzled the even more famous mathematician Paul Erdos.
Professor Steven Post received his Ph.D. from Princeton University. He did his undergraduate work at the University of Chicago and he has been teaching at Edgewood College since 1988. This will be his fifth presentation to our math club.
For Spring 2008 lecture series, please visit the Math Club website.
