"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 Godel'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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