What is the name of this book? : the riddle of Dracula and other logical puzzles / Raymond M. Smullyan.

By:

Smullyan, Raymond M

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: Mineola, N.Y. : Dover Publications, Inc., 2011.Edition: Dover edDescription: 241 p. : ill. ; 22 cmISBN:

9780486481982 (pbk.)
0486481980 (pbk.)

Subject(s):

Logic puzzles

DDC classification:

793.73 SMU

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Publisher description

Summary: In his most critically acclaimed work, a well-known mathematician, magician, and author spins a logical labyrinth of more than 200 increasingly complex and challenging problems - puzzles that delve into some of the deepest paradoxes of logic and set theory. Solutions.The most original, most profound, and most humorous collection of recreational logic and math problems ever written. - Martin Gardner-- Provided by publisher.

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Copy number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Standard Loan	Moylish Library Main Collection	793.73 SMU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	1	Available		39002100405829

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

"The most original, most profound, and most humorous collection of recreational logic and math problems ever written." -- Martin Gardner, Scientific American
"The value of the book lies in the wealth of ingenious puzzles. They afford amusement, vigorous exercise, and instruction." -- Willard Van Orman Quine, The New York Times Book Review
If you're intrigued by puzzles and paradoxes, these 200 mind-bending logic puzzles, riddles, and diversions will thrill you with challenges to your powers of reason and common sense. Raymond M. Smullyan -- a celebrated mathematician, logician, magician, and author -- presents a logical labyrinth of more than 200 increasingly complex problems. The puzzles delve into Gödel's undecidability theorem and other examples of the deepest paradoxes of logic and set theory. Detailed solutions follow each puzzle.

Orig. pub.: New York : Simon & Schuster, c1978.

In his most critically acclaimed work, a well-known mathematician, magician, and author spins a logical labyrinth of more than 200 increasingly complex and challenging problems - puzzles that delve into some of the deepest paradoxes of logic and set theory. Solutions.The most original, most profound, and most humorous collection of recreational logic and math problems ever written. - Martin Gardner-- Provided by publisher.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

Part 1 Logical Recreations
1 Fooled?
2 Puzzles and Monkey Tricks
3 Knights and Knaves
4 Alice in the Forest of Forgetfulness
Part 2 Portia's Caskets and Other Mysteries
5 The Mystery of Portia's Casket
6 from the Files of Inspector Craig
7 How to Avoid Werewolves-And Other Practical Bits of Advice
8 Logic Puzzles
9 Bellini or Cellini?
Part 3 Weird Tales
10 The Island of Baal
11 The Island of Zombies
12 Is Dracula Still Alive?
Part 4 Logic Is a Many-Splendored Thing
13 Logic and Life
14 How to Prove Anything
15 from Paradox to Truth
16 Godel's Discovery

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Raymond Merrill Smullyan was born in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York on May 25, 1919. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He taught at Princeton, Yeshiva University, Lehman College of the City University of New York, and Indiana University. He also performed magic under the stage name Five-Ace Merrill at nightclubs like the Pump Room in Chicago.

He was a puzzle-creating logician who wrote many books including The Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Knights, The Lady or the Tiger?: And Other Logic Puzzles, Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children, and The Magic Garden of George B and Other Logic Puzzles. He died on February 6, 2017 at the age of 97.

(Bowker Author Biography)