I used to read popular science books on physics, like Jim Al-Khalili’s Paradox. The Nine Great Mysteries of Physics, released in the New Science series.

I used to read popular science books on physics, like Jim Al-Khalili’s Paradox. The Nine Great Mysteries of Physics, released in the New Science series. The book perfectly addresses the paradoxical questions of physics. But the author begins with simple mathematical stories related to probability theory, namely the Monty Hall Paradox and the Birthday Paradox. The first one is interesting to me because I heard it for the first time in ten years from my chess coach, who periodically threw interesting tasks and manuals on the development of cognitive abilities. As far as I remember, as a child, it was difficult for me to understand the essence of this paradox, even with the coach’s explanations. As a result, I figured out already in high school, when I studied a little university textbooks on theorver:) Interestingly, the formulation of the Monty Hall paradox is simple, and most of my friends who first heard it answer the question incorrectly. I will give you the wording directly in the field. “Imagine that you were in a game where you had to choose one of three doors. There is a car behind one of the doors and goats behind the other two. You choose one of the doors, such as a number. 1After that, the host, who knows where the car is and where the goats are, opens one of the remaining doors. 3, behind which is a goat. After that, he asks you if you would like to change your choice and choose the door number. 2? Will your chances of winning the car increase if you accept the offer of the presenter and change your choice? If you are interested, you can read about this paradox. And I will go further, because the author goes on to physical questions, which include: Zeno's Paradox of Achilles and the Tortoise - Infinitely Small Rows The Demons of Maxwell and Laplace - the first about the second law of thermodynamics, and the second about the theory of chaos The paradox of twins and the grandfather paradox - the first about the special and general theory of relativity, and the second about time travel. Schrödinger's cat - about the quantum world and the transition to the macroworld Olbers paradox and Fermi paradox - the first about why it is dark at night, if there are so many stars, and the second about where are the green men, if there are so many stars and many planets around them. Finally, the author presents a set of questions that have yet to be solved.

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