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