What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles - Couverture souple

Smullyan, Raymond M.

 
9780486481982: What Is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles
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ISBN 10 : 0486481980 ISBN 13 : 9780486481982
Editeur : Dover Publications Inc., 2011

Synopsis

A celebrated mathematician presents more than 200 increasingly complex problems that delve into Gödel’s undecidability theorem and other examples of the deepest paradoxes of logic and set theory. Solutions.

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À propos de l?auteur

Raymond Smullyan received his PhD from Princeton University and taught at Dartmouth, Princeton, Indiana University, and New York's Lehman College. Best known for his mathematical and creative logic puzzles and games, he was also a concert pianist and a magician. He wrote over a dozen books of logic puzzles and texts on mathematical logic. Raymond Smullyan: The Merry Prankster
Raymond Smullyan (1919-2017), mathematician, logician, magician, creator of extraordinary puzzles, philosopher, pianist, and man of many parts. The first Dover book by Raymond Smullyan was First-Order Logic (1995). Recent years have brought a number of his magical books of logic and math puzzles: The Lady or the Tiger (2009); Satan, Cantor and Infinity (2009); an original, never-before-published collection, King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles (2010); and Set Theory and the Continuum Problem (with Melvin Fitting, also reprinted by Dover in 2010). More will be coming in subsequent years.

In the Author's Own Words:
"Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini."

"Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements: they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong.'" -- Raymond Smullyan

Critical Acclaim for The Lady or the Tiger:
"Another scintillating collection of brilliant problems and paradoxes by the most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived." -- Martin Gardner

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Éditeur
Dover Publications Inc.
Date d'édition
2011
Langue
anglais
ISBN 10 
0486481980
ISBN 13 
9780486481982
Reliure
Broché
Nombre de pages
256
Coordonnées du fabricant
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Personne responsable
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ISBN 10 :  0671628321 ISBN 13 :  9780671628321
Editeur : Pocket Books, 1986
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