The Condorcet Paradox
A majority prefers A to B, and B to C, and C to A. Every voter was honest and nobody made a mistake.
178517 min read
Era
Early Modern
1500 – 1800
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Gabriel's Horn
A shape you can fill with a finite bucket of paint but whose inside you could never finish painting. How?
16417 min read
The St. Petersburg Paradox
A coin-flipping game whose average winnings are infinite. How much of your own money would you actually pay to play?
1713 (posed by Nicolaus Bernoulli), 1738 (published by Daniel Bernoulli)19 min read
Galileo's Paradox
There are exactly as many square numbers as there are numbers, even though almost every number is not a square.
163813 min read