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What Is the Name of This Book?|Raymond M. Smullyan
What Is the Name of This Book? : The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles
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"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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  • 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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