The Riddle Of Scheherazade

Author : Raymond Smullyan
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 219 pages
File Size : 44,7 Mb
Release : 2012-08-22
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780307819833

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The Riddle of Scheherazade by Raymond Smullyan Pdf

In his new book, Raymond Smullyan, grand vizier of the logic puzzle, joins Scheherazade, a charming young woman of “fantastic logical ingenuity,” to give us 1001 hours of brain-teasing fun. Scheherazade, we find, has gotten back into hot water with the king, and is once more in danger of losing her head at down. But, thinking quickly, she tempts the king to stay her execution by posing him the most delightfully devious mathematical and logic puzzle ever invented. They keep him guessing for many more nights until the fatal hour has passed, and she keeps her head. The Riddle of Scheherazade includes several wonderful old chestnuts and many fiendishly original puzzles, 225 in all. There are logic tricks and number games, metapuzzles (puzzles about puzzles), liar/truth-teller exercises, Gödelian brian twisters, baffling paradoxes, and an excursion, under Scheherazade’s expert guidance, into an amusing new field invented by Smullyan, called “coercive” logic, in which the answer to a problem can actually change the fate of the puzzler! An absolute must for all puzzle fans—from the middle-school whiz to the sophisticated mathematician or computer scientist.

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1999-05-01
Category : Games
ISBN : 0517370298

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Riddle of Scheherazade by Raymond M. Smullyan Pdf

With a great wittiness, the author re-creates Scherezade, the young protagonist of "The thousand nights and a night, who will delay her execution now devising deliciously tortuous logical and mathematical puzzles and wonderful old riddles that will let us put to use our mental skills.

Author : Raymond Smullyan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 1986-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780671628314

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This Book Needs No Title by Raymond Smullyan Pdf

From Simon & Schuster, This Book Needs No Title is Raymond Smullyan's budget of living paradoxes—the author of What is the Name of This Book? Including eighty paradoxes, logical labyrinths, and intriguing enigmas progress from light fables and fancies to challenging Zen exercises and a novella and probe the timeless questions of philosophy and life.

Author : Charles Godfrey Leland
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 178 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 1892
Category : Riddles
ISBN : NYPL:33433082292370

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The Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria by Charles Godfrey Leland Pdf

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 9780486470276

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The Lady Or the Tiger? by Raymond M. Smullyan Pdf

"Another scintillating collection of brilliant problems and paradoxes by the most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived." — Martin Gardner. Inspired by the classic tale of a prisoner's dilemma, these whimsically themed challenges involve paradoxes about probability, time, and change; metapuzzles; and self-referentiality. Nineteen chapters advance in difficulty from relatively simple to highly complex.

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9780307819826

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Satan, Cantor, And Infinity And Other Mind-bogglin by Raymond M. Smullyan Pdf

More than two hundred new and challenging logic puzzles—the simplest brainteaser to the most complex paradoxes in contemporary mathematical thinking—from our topmost puzzlemaster (“the most entertaining logician who ever lived,” Martin Gardner has called him). Our guide to the puzzles is the Sorcerer, who resides on the Island of Knights and Knaves, where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie, and he introduces us to the amazing magic—logic—that enables to discover which inhabitants are which. Then, in a picaresque adventure in logic, he takes us to the planet Og, to the Island of Partial Silence, and to a land where metallic robots wearing strings of capital letters are noisily duplicating and dismantling themselves and others. The reader’s job is to figure out how it all works. Finally, we accompany the Sorcerer on an alluring tour of Infinity which includes George Cantor’s amazing mathematical insights. The tour (and the book) ends with Satan devising a diabolical puzzle for one of Cantor’s prize students—who outwits him! In sum: a devilish magician’s cornucopia of puzzles—a delight for every age and level of ability.

Author : Jason Rosenhouse,Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 352 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2014-02-20
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780486782942

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Four Lives by Jason Rosenhouse,Raymond M. Smullyan Pdf

This "best of" hardcover collection of works by Raymond Smullyan features logic puzzles, musings on mathematical logic and paradoxes, chess problems, and thoughts on the philosophy of religion, plus personal tributes to the author.

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2004-02-20
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0253217083

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The Puzzle Instinct by Marcel Danesi Pdf

"Humans are the only animals who create and solve puzzles--for the sheer pleasure of it--and there is no obvious genetic reason why we would do this. Marcel Danesi explores the psychology of puzzles and puzzling, with scores of classic examples. His pioneering book is both entertaining and enlightening." --Will Shortz, Crossword Editor, The New York Times "... Puzzle fanatics will enjoy the many riddles, illusions, cryptograms and other mind-benders offered for analysis." --Psychology Today "... a bristlingly clear... always intriguing survey of the history and rationale of puzzles.... A] splendid study...." --Knight Ridder Newspapers

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-12-13
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 9781350089877

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An Anthropology of Puzzles by Marcel Danesi Pdf

An Anthropology of Puzzles argues that the human brain is a "puzzling organ" which allows humans to literally solve their own problems of existence through puzzle format. Noting the presence of puzzles everywhere in everyday life, Marcel Danesi looks at puzzles in society since the dawn of history, showing how their presence has guided large sections of human history, from discoveries in mathematics to disquisitions in philosophy. Danesi examines the cognitive processes that are involved in puzzle making and solving, and connects them to the actual physical manifestations of classic puzzles. Building on a concept of puzzles as based on Jungian archetypes, such as the river crossing image, the path metaphor, and the journey, Danesi suggests this could be one way to understand the public fascination with puzzles. As well as drawing on underlying mental archetypes, the act of solving puzzles also provides an outlet to move beyond biological evolution, and Danesi shows that puzzles could be the product of the same basic neural mechanism that produces language and culture. Finally, Danesi explores how understanding puzzles can be a new way of understanding our human culture.

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Dover Math Games & Puzzles
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 47,8 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0486481980

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What is the Name of this Book? by Raymond M. Smullyan Pdf

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.

Author : Jason Rosenhouse
Publisher : Oxford University Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 55,6 Mb
Release : 2009-06-04
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9780195367898

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The Monty Hall Problem by Jason Rosenhouse Pdf

In this light-hearted yet ultimately serious book, Jason Rosenhouse explores the history of this fascinating puzzle. Using a minimum of mathematics (and none at all for much of the book), he shows how the problem has fascinated philosophers, psychologists, and many others, and examines the many variations that have appeared over the years.

Author : Alan Blackwell,Kim Marriott,Atsushi Shimojima
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 469 pages
File Size : 43,8 Mb
Release : 2004-03-12
Category : Art
ISBN : 9783540212683

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Diagrammatic Representation and Inference by Alan Blackwell,Kim Marriott,Atsushi Shimojima Pdf

This book constitutes the refereed proceedings of the Third International Conference, Diagrams 2004, held in Cambridge, UK, in March 2004. The 18 revised full papers and 42 revised poster papers presented together with a survey article and the abstracts of 2 posters were carefully reviewed and selected from a total of 91 submissions. The papers are organized in topical sections on fundamental issues, logical aspects of diagrammatic representation and reasoning, computational aspects of diagrammatic representation and reasoning, cognitive aspects of diagrammatic representation and reasoning, visualizing information with diagrams, diagrams in human-computer interaction, and diagrams in software engineering.

Author : Melvin Fitting,Brian Rayman
Publisher : Springer
Page : 195 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2018-01-11
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9783319687322

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Raymond Smullyan on Self Reference by Melvin Fitting,Brian Rayman Pdf

This book collects, for the first time in one volume, contributions honoring Professor Raymond Smullyan’s work on self-reference. It serves not only as a tribute to one of the great thinkers in logic, but also as a celebration of self-reference in general, to be enjoyed by all lovers of this field. Raymond Smullyan, mathematician, philosopher, musician and inventor of logic puzzles, made a lasting impact on the study of mathematical logic; accordingly, this book spans the many personalities through which Professor Smullyan operated, offering extensions and re-evaluations of his academic work on self-reference, applying self-referential logic to art and nature, and lastly, offering new puzzles designed to communicate otherwise esoteric concepts in mathematical logic, in the manner for which Professor Smullyan was so well known. This book is suitable for students, scholars and logicians who are interested in learning more about Raymond Smullyan's work and life.

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
Page : 255 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011-01-06
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781118045817

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The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi by Marcel Danesi Pdf

A walk through history's most mind-boggling puzzles Ever since the Sphinx asked his legendary riddle of Oedipus, riddles, conundrums, and puzzles of all sizes have kept humankind perplexed and amused. The Liar Paradox and the Towers of Hanoi takes die-hard puzzle mavens on a tour of the world's most enduringly intriguing braintwisters, from K?nigsberg's Bridges and the Hanoi Towers to Fibonacci's Rabbits, the Four Color Problem, and the Magic Square. Each chapter introduces the basic puzzle, discusses the mathematics behind it, and includes exercises and answers plus additional puzzles similar to the one under discussion. Here is a veritable kaleidoscope of puzzling labyrinths, maps, bridges, and optical illusions that will keep aficionados entertained for hours. Marcel Danesi (Etobicoke, ON, Canada) is the author of Increase Your Puzzle IQ

Author : Valentin Goranko
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 384 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2016-08-10
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 9781118880050

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Logic as a Tool by Valentin Goranko Pdf

Written in a clear, precise and user-friendly style, Logic as a Tool: A Guide to Formal Logical Reasoning is intended for undergraduates in both mathematics and computer science, and will guide them to learn, understand and master the use of classical logic as a tool for doing correct reasoning. It offers a systematic and precise exposition of classical logic with many examples and exercises, and only the necessary minimum of theory. The book explains the grammar, semantics and use of classical logical languages and teaches the reader how grasp the meaning and translate them to and from natural language. It illustrates with extensive examples the use of the most popular deductive systems -- axiomatic systems, semantic tableaux, natural deduction, and resolution -- for formalising and automating logical reasoning both on propositional and on first-order level, and provides the reader with technical skills needed for practical derivations in them. Systematic guidelines are offered on how to perform logically correct and well-structured reasoning using these deductive systems and the reasoning techniques that they employ. •Concise and systematic exposition, with semi-formal but rigorous treatment of the minimum necessary theory, amply illustrated with examples •Emphasis both on conceptual understanding and on developing practical skills •Solid and balanced coverage of syntactic, semantic, and deductive aspects of logic •Includes extensive sets of exercises, many of them provided with solutions or answers •Supplemented by a website including detailed slides, additional exercises and solutions For more information browse the book's website at: https://logicasatool.wordpress.com