The Lady or the Tiger?: & Other Logic Puzzles: And Other Logic Puzzles - Brossura

Smullyan, Raymond M.

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ISBN 10: 048647027X ISBN 13: 9780486470276

Casa editrice: Dover Pubns, 2009

Riassunto

"Another scintillating collection of brilliant problems and paradoxes by the most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived." — Martin Gardner
"Smullyan 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 Gödel'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."

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L'autore:

Raymond Smullyan received his PhD from Princeton University and taught at Dartmouth, Princeton, Indiana University, and New York's Lehman College. Best known for his mathematical and creative logic puzzles and games, he was also a concert pianist and a magician. He wrote over a dozen books of logic puzzles and texts on mathematical logic. Raymond Smullyan: The Merry Prankster
Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017), mathematician, logician, magician, creator of extraordinary puzzles, philosopher, pianist, and man of many parts. The first Dover book by Raymond Smullyan was First-Order Logic (1995). Recent years have brought a number of his magical books of logic and math puzzles: The Lady or the Tiger (2009); Satan, Cantor and Infinity (2009); an original, never-before-published collection, King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles (2010); and Set Theory and the Continuum Problem (with Melvin Fitting, also reprinted by Dover in 2010). More will be coming in subsequent years.

In the Author's Own Words:
"Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini."

"Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements: they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong.'" — Raymond Smullyan

Critical Acclaim for The Lady or the Tiger:
"Another scintillating collection of brilliant problems and paradoxes by the most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived." — Martin Gardner

Contenuti:

PART I. THE LADY OR THE TIGER? Chestnuts--Old and New Ladies or Tigers? The Asylum of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether Inspector Craig Visits Transylvania PART II. PUZZLES AND METAPUZZLES The Island of Questioners The Isle of Dreams Metapuzzles PART III. THE MYSTERY OF THE MONTE CARLO LOCK The Mystery of the Monte Carlo Lock A Curious Number Machine Craig's Law Fergusson's Laws Interlude: Let's Generalize! The Key PART IV. SOLVABLE OR UNSOLVABLE? Fergusson's Logic Machine Provability and Truth Machines That Talk About Themselves Mortal and Immortal Numbers The Machine That Never Got Built Leibniz's Dream About the Author

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• Editore: Dover Pubns
• Data di pubblicazione: 2009
• ISBN 10: 048647027X
• ISBN 13: 9780486470276
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 226