To Mock a Mockingbird: And Other Logic Puzzles including an amazing adventure in combinatory logic

Smullyan, Raymond M

ISBN 10: 019286095X / ISBN 13: 9780192860958

Editore: Oxford University Press, 1990

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• Titolo: To Mock a Mockingbird: And Other Logic Puzzles including an amazing adventure in combinatory logic
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Data di pubblicazione: 1990
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 019286095X
• ISBN 13: 9780192860958
• Rilegatura: Brossura
• Condizione: Muy Bueno

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A collection of entertaining and challenging logic puzzles which make accessible some of the most important and complex mathematical ideas of our time. The author creates a realm of characters who either always tell the truth or always lie, and sets a variety of problems for truth-seekers. He also investigates combinatory logic, in an adventure which culminates in Godel's famous theorem. Written by the author of "Forever Undecided", this book will appeal to puzzle lovers and to students of logic and mathematics.