The Lady or the Tiger? by Raymond M Smullyan
Another scintillating collection of brilliant problems and paradoxes by the most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived. -- Martin GardnerSmullyan is not your run-of-the-mill puzzlemeister; he polishes up old chestnuts, spins variations on a theme, and peoples his logical world with a delightful cast of characters. -- Science 82
I believe Ray Smullyan to be the Lewis Carroll of our times. His little books of logic puzzles will be remembered long after most of us are forgotten. -- Peter Denning, Chairman of the Computer Science Department, Naval Postgraduate School
You may experience small frissons of delight as you follow Smullyan into the dizzying heights of G del's proof and the very nature of proof, truth, and logic in mathematics. -- Kirkus Reviews
Discover scintillating new perspectives on the principles of mathematical logic with this puzzle treasury. Inspired by the classic tale of a prisoner's choice between two doors, these whimsically themed challenges allow readers to base their decisions on logic rather than luck. Nineteen chapters advance from relatively simple puzzles and meta-puzzles to highly complex paradoxes involving probability, time, and change. The author, a well-known philosopher and magician as well as a celebrated mathematician and logician, was acclaimed by The New York Times as a master at translating difficult ideas into stories and puzzles that require no formal background, only patience and a passion to learn.
Raymond Smullyan, a mathematician, concert pianist, magician, and author of various volumes of logic puzzles, chess puzzles, mathematics, philosophy, and memoir, was born in Far Rockaway, New York, in 1919.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780486470276 |
| ISBN 10 | 048647027X |
| Title | The Lady or the Tiger? |
| Author | Raymond M Smullyan |
| Series | Dover Recreational Math |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Dover Publications Inc. |
| Year published | 2009-06-26 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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