User:P64/Statistics/Problem


 * Fermat's problem &mdash;redirect because solved?
 * Fermat's Last Theorem


 * what to name it? (eg, *problem, *paradox, *puzzle)
 * what to call it? (eg, is a problem; alt, is to find)
 * whether and where to place it? (eg, in probability)

See Talk: Two envelopes problem, especially Richard Gill, May 8

The Lead and See also sections are likely to be important.

Problem Paradox; List of paradoxes with useful preface Fallacy; List of fallacies; List of cognitive biases Puzzle Brain teaser Riddle: said to be Enigma or Conundrum Proverb

what's the problem?
 * Birthday paradox

problem
 * Monty Hall problem &mdash;
 * Three Prisoners problem &mdash;
 * Sleeping Beauty problem &mdash;
 * Three cards problem &mdash;
 * Two envelopes problem &mdash;7 redirects mainly from *paradox

other
 * Missing square puzzle
 * Kavka's toxin puzzle


 * Opposite Day &mdash;also List of traditional children's games

Why not Bertrand's box?


 * Paradox of ...


 * Ship of Theseus &mdash;27 redirects including five *paradox


 * Crocodile Dilemma &mdash;
 * Will Rogers phenomenon &mdash;
 * Pigeonhole Principle
 * Hilbert's paradox of the Grand Hotel
 * Paradoxical set
 * Gabriel's Horn &mdash;finite volume but infinite surface area
 * Nikodym set
 * Buridan's ass
 * Morton's fork
 * Prisoner's dilemma &mdash;28 redirects incl *paradox, *problem, mainly spelling/capitalization
 * Holographic principle
 * Feynman sprinkler
 * Bell's theorem
 * Quantum pseudo-telepathy
 * Maxwell's Demon
 * Chicken or the egg

Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel

compare Marxian contradiction (maybe Hegelian contradiction)

See also eg, 0.999...