ISBN: 9780140224788 - the lady or the tiger?;and other logical puzzles: and other logic puzzles (pelican s.) (1 Ergebnisse)

Paperback. Zustand: Good. 208 pages. Text lightly tanned 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 chest nuts, spins variations on a theme, and peoples his logical world with a delightf ul cast of characters. ? Science 82I believe Ray Smullyan to be the Lewi s Carroll of our times. His little books of logic puzzles will be remembered lon g after most of us are forgotten. ? Peter Denning, Chairman of the Computer S cience Department, Naval Postgraduate SchoolYou may experience small frisso ns of delight as you follow Smullyan into the dizzying heights of Gödel's proof and the very nature of proof, truth, and logic in mathematics. ? Kirkus Revi ewsDiscover scintillating new perspectives on the principles of mathematical logic with this puzzle treasury. Inspired by the classic tale of a prisoner's c hoice between two doors, these whimsically themed challenges allow readers to ba se their decisions on logic rather than luck. Nineteen chapters advance from rel atively simple puzzles and meta-puzzles to highly complex paradoxes involving pr obability, time, and change. The author, a well-known philosopher and magician a s 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.…