Surprise exam/unexpected hanging

[Timothy Y. Chow]

I recently wrote a paper about this paradox. It is available at

http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~tchow/unexpected.ps

and will appear in the _American_Mathematical_Monthly_ in the
not-too-distant future. The paper explains how some nontrivial
mathematics, such as game theory and Goedel's incompleteness
theorem, arises from analyzing the paradox. I also try to
dispel some of the confusion that surrounds the paradox.

The paper does *not* contain an exhaustive bibliography; it
lists "only" about thirty references. If you want the complete
list, please email me.
--
Tim Chow tc...@umich.edu
Where a calculator on the ENIAC is equipped with 18,000 vacuum tubes and weighs
30 tons, computers in the future may have only 1,000 vacuum tubes and weigh
only 1 1/2 tons. ---Popular Mechanics, March 1949

[Kevin Lin]

Timothy Y. Chow wrote:
>
> I recently wrote a paper about this paradox. It is available at
>
> http://www.math.lsa.umich.edu/~tchow/unexpected.ps

How's about a plain text or HTML version? (My acroreader gave an error
on this file).

--
Kevin J. Lin
ke...@wx3.com

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