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Elevator paradox

Index Elevator paradox

The elevator paradox is a paradox first noted by Marvin Stern and George Gamow, physicists who had offices on different floors of a multi-story building. [1]

8 relations: Elevator, George Gamow, Infinity, Journal of Recreational Mathematics, Martin Gardner, Paradox, Physicist, Triangle wave.

Elevator

An elevator (US and Canada) or lift (UK, Australia, Ireland, New Zealand, and South Africa, Nigeria) is a type of vertical transportation that moves people or goods between floors (levels, decks) of a building, vessel, or other structure.

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George Gamow

George Gamow (March 4, 1904- August 19, 1968), born Georgiy Antonovich Gamov, was a Russian-American theoretical physicist and cosmologist.

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Infinity

Infinity (symbol) is a concept describing something without any bound or larger than any natural number.

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Journal of Recreational Mathematics

The Journal of Recreational Mathematics was an American journal dedicated to recreational mathematics, started in 1968.

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Martin Gardner

Martin Gardner (October 21, 1914May 22, 2010) was an American popular mathematics and popular science writer, with interests also encompassing scientific skepticism, micromagic, philosophy, religion, and literature—especially the writings of Lewis Carroll, L. Frank Baum, and G. K. Chesterton.

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Paradox

A paradox is a statement that, despite apparently sound reasoning from true premises, leads to an apparently self-contradictory or logically unacceptable conclusion.

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Physicist

A physicist is a scientist who has specialized knowledge in the field of physics, which encompasses the interactions of matter and energy at all length and time scales in the physical universe.

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Triangle wave

A triangle wave is a non-sinusoidal waveform named for its triangular shape.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elevator_paradox

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