Overview
"The most original, most profound, and most humorous collection of recreational logic and math problems ever written." -- Martin Gardner, Scientific American
"The value of the book lies in the wealth of ingenious puzzles. They afford amusement, vigorous exercise, and instruction." -- Willard Van Orman Quine, The New York Times Book Review
If you're intrigued by puzzles and paradoxes, these 200 mind-bending logic puzzles, riddles, and diversions will thrill you with challenges to your powers of reason and common sense. Raymond M. Smullyan -- a celebrated mathematician, logician, magician, and author -- presents a logical labyrinth of more than 200 increasingly complex problems. The puzzles delve into G del's undecidability theorem and other examples of the deepest paradoxes of logic and set theory. Detailed solutions follow each puzzle.
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Details
- ISBN-13: 9780486481982
- ISBN-10: 0486481980
- Publisher: Dover Publications
- Publish Date: August 2011
- Dimensions: 8.5 x 5.4 x 0.49 inches
- Shipping Weight: 0.61 pounds
- Page Count: 256
- Reading Level: Ages 12-UP
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