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To Mock a Mockingbird: and Other Logic Puzzles Raymond Smullyan (Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy, Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy, Indiana State University)

To Mock a Mockingbird: and Other Logic Puzzles von Raymond Smullyan (Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy, Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy, Indiana State University)

To Mock a Mockingbird: and Other Logic Puzzles Raymond Smullyan (Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy, Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy, Indiana State University)


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Zusammenfassung

In this entertaining and challenging collection of logic puzzles, Raymond Smullyan-author of Forever Undecided-continues to delight and astonish us with his gift for making available, in the thoroughly pleasurable form of puzzles, some of the most important mathematical thinking of our time.

To Mock a Mockingbird: and Other Logic Puzzles Zusammenfassung

To Mock a Mockingbird: and Other Logic Puzzles Raymond Smullyan (Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy, Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy, Indiana State University)

In this entertaining and challenging collection of logic puzzles, Raymond Smullyan - author of Forever Undecided - continues to delight and astonish us with his gift for making available, in the thoroughly pleasurable form of puzzles, some of the most important mathematical thinking of our time. In the first part of the book, he transports us once again to that wonderful realm where knights, knaves, twin sisters, quadruplet brothers, gods, demons, and mortals either always tell the truth or always lie, and where truth-seekers are set a variety of fascinating problems. The section culminates in an enchanting and profound metapuzzle in which Inspector Craig of Scotland Yard gets involved in a search for the Fountain of Youth on the Island of Knights and Knaves. In the second part of To Mock a Mockingbird, we accompany the Inspector on a summer-long adventure into the field of combinatory logic (a branch of logic that plays an important role in computer science and artificial intelligence). His adventure, which includes enchanted forests, talking birds, bird sociologists, and a classic quest, provides for us along the way the pleasure of solving puzzles of increasing complexity until we reach the Master Forest and - thanks to Godel's famous theorem - the final revelation.

Über Raymond Smullyan (Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy, Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy, Indiana State University)

Raymond Smullyan, a well-known mathematician and logician and the author of many books, is Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University and Professor Emeritus of the City University of New York-Lehman College and Graduate Center.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

PART I - LOGIC PUZZLES; PART II - KNIGHTS, KNAVES, AND THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH; PART III - TO MOCK A MOCKINGBIRD; PART IV - SINGING BIRDS; PART V - THE MASTER FOREST; PART VI - THE GRAND QUESTION

Zusätzliche Informationen

GOR001468196
9780192801425
0192801422
To Mock a Mockingbird: and Other Logic Puzzles Raymond Smullyan (Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy, Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy, Indiana State University)
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Oxford University Press
2000-11-09
256
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