What Is the Name of this Book? The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles

Smullyan, Raymond

ISBN 10: 0139550623 / ISBN 13: 9780139550621

Published by Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1978

About this Item

This work has an entertaining menagerie of over 200 mind-bending logical puzzlers, riddles, and diversions that challenge reasoning powers and common sense. Contents consist of four parts, sixteen chapters, 241 pages. There is a small area at the top of the spine (part of the letter M in the author's last name) that apparently a sticker was removed and now part of the M is missing. Some wear at the head and tail of the spine and at corners. The book was printed on poor quality paper and has some limited age toning in places. However, it is fully readable. Available for immediate shipment, carefully packed!

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: What Is the Name of this Book? The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles
• Publisher: Prentice-Hall, Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey
• Publication Date: 1978
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0139550623
• ISBN 13: 9780139550621
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Very Good

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Synopsis

In his most critically acclaimed work, a celebrated mathematician presents more than 200 increasingly complex and challenging problems â 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." â Martin Gardner.

About the Author

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