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Alex Stone

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First-Year Graduate Student Finds Paradoxical Set

By Alex Stone
June 5, 2023
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No two pairs have the same sum; add three numbers together, and you can get any whole number.

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Alex Stone's work has appeared in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, Science, Discover and Psychology Today, among other places. He is the author of Fooling Houdini: Magicians, Mentalists, Math Geeks and the Hidden Powers of the Mind. Alex has a master's degree in physics from Columbia University, where he did research on experimental cosmology. He also does magic tricks.
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