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To Mock a Mockingbird: and Other Logic Puzzles (Paperback, New Ed) Loot Price: R317
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To Mock a Mockingbird: and Other Logic Puzzles (Paperback, New Ed)

Raymond Smullyan

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In this entertaining and challenging collection of logic puzzles, Raymond Smullyan - author of Forever Undecided - continues to delight and astonish us with his gift for making available, in the thoroughly pleasurable form of puzzles, some of the most important mathematical thinking of our time. In the first part of the book, he transports us once again to that wonderful realm where knights, knaves, twin sisters, quadruplet brothers, gods, demons, and mortals either always tell the truth or always lie, and where truth-seekers are set a variety of fascinating problems. The section culminates in an enchanting and profound metapuzzle in which Inspector Craig of Scotland Yard gets involved in a search for the Fountain of Youth on the Island of Knights and Knaves. In the second part of To Mock a Mockingbird, we accompany the Inspector on a summer-long adventure into the field of combinatory logic (a branch of logic that plays an important role in computer science and artificial intelligence). His adventure, which includes enchanted forests, talking birds, bird sociologists, and a classic quest, provides for us along the way the pleasure of solving puzzles of increasing complexity until we reach the Master Forest and - thanks to Godel's famous theorem - the final revelation.

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Imprint: Oxford UniversityPress
Country of origin: United Kingdom
Release date: November 2000
Authors: Raymond Smullyan (Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy)
Dimensions: 196 x 129 x 13mm (L x W x T)
Format: Paperback
Pages: 246
Edition: New Ed
ISBN-13: 978-0-19-280142-5
Categories: Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
Books > Science & Mathematics > Mathematics > Mathematical foundations > Mathematical logic
Books > Sport & Leisure > Hobbies, quizzes & games > Puzzles & quizzes > General
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Logic
LSN: 0-19-280142-2
Barcode: 9780192801425

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