2 puzzles from Émile Borel, each explained in a minute and credited to the original work. Free on Savvy.
Imagine a monkey pressing keys on a typewriter completely at random for an infinite amount of time. Mathematicians have proven something that sounds absurd: given infinite time, it…
— Émile Borel, Mécanique Statistique et Irréversibilité
Two colonels must each secretly split a fixed number of troops across several battlefields, deciding all at once with no knowledge of the other's plan. Whoever puts more troops on …
— Emile Borel, La theorie du jeu et les equations integrales a noyau symetrique