Embark on a whimsical odyssey through the realms of ethics in AI bots, logic, game theory, paradoxes, biases, fake data detection, graph theory, and so much more! Within these pages you’ll find a collection of fictional short stories that weave together the intriguing, the counterintuitive and the downright quirky with bold characters from every walk of life.

Contents:

• The Archipelago of Serene Deep:
  
  
  
  • When Pigs Fly: Scientific Experimentation & Cascading Errors
  
  
  • Ultra-Altruism: Economic Stability
  
  
  • Fakebook: Fake Data, Privacy, AI Bots, & Signalling Games
  
  
  • Deadly Serious Party: Political Establishment
  
  


• Pandemic Pandemonium:
  
  
  
  • The Forever Virus: Hypothesizing
  
  
  • Ending the Forever Virus: Policy & Deployment
  
  


• Counterintuitive Chaos:
  
  
  
  • Explosive Logic: Logical Fallacies
  
  
  • Concrete Evidence: Number Tricks
  
  
  • Existential Overload: Morality & Ethics
  
  
  • Blue Album: Applied Mathematics
  
  
  • Infinity and Beyond: Abstract Mathematics
  
  

Readership: All undergraduate and students in the second half of high school, particularly in the fields of mathematics, computer science, engineering, economics, business, political science, and social science; General public who are curious about the intricacies and counterintuitive nature of reality.

Key Features:

• A readable entertaining book of stories that encourages the reader to serendipitously explore a larger multidisciplinary digital archipelago (e.g., WWW, wiki, chatbots, You Tube) of skills needed to solve wicked problems that humans face (e.g., viruses, conflicts, AI, Crypto)


• A fun textbook that doubles up as a classroom tool as well as a fun read


• Every chapter is a completely new and unique style of writing


• Diverse cast of characters from every walk of life


• A must have for all undergrads as it gives a really good perspective of how uncertain and deceptive reality and life in general can be (not only math and computer science)


• High density of thought-provoking ideas through quotes, anecdotes and open questions thoroughly peppered through the chapters


• ’Look me up’ sections that foster the curious reader’s knowledge to further expand


• Fun exercises that tickle the mind that can also be used as assignments