Lady or the Tiger? And Other Logic Puzzles Including a Mathematical Novel That Features Godel's Great Discovery

Smullyan, Raymond M.

ISBN 10: 0812921178 / ISBN 13: 9780812921175

Published by Random House Puzzles & Games, 1992

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Lady or the Tiger? And Other Logic Puzzles Including a Mathematical Novel That Features Godel's Great Discovery
• Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games
• Publication Date: 1992
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0812921178
• ISBN 13: 9780812921175
• Binding: paperback
• Condition: New
• Weight: 13 ounces

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Synopsis

A series of logic problems and puzzles relating important mathematical and logical concepts, includes paradoxes, metapuzzles, number exercises, and a mathematical novel

About the Author

Raymond Smullyan is considered one of America's most inventive creators of logic puzzles. His many writings include a previous volume of recreational logic and math problems, What Is the Name of This Book?; two studies of deductive logic in chess, The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes and The Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Nights; two collections of philosophical essays and aphorisms; The Tao Is Silent and This Book Needs No Title, and most recently, Satan, Cantor, and Infinity. He is a professor of mathematical logic at Indiana University.