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Dover Publications Inc. Alice in PuzzleLand
Book SynopsisA charming and challenging adventure. ? Wordplay, the Crossword Blog of The New York Times Alice and her friends return for another romp through Wonderland and the Looking-Glass with theseeighty-eight puzzles, paradoxes, and logic problems. Raymond M. Smullyan''s characters speak and behave like the originals, and their puzzles abound in typical Carrollian word play, logicproblems, and dark philosophical paradoxes. Isaac Asimov described this book as amusing, entertaining, and surprisingly educational. And it might just send you back to reread Alice.Readers of all ages will delight in the charming stories and the wealth of ingenious puzzles. Written by a distinguished mathematician and creator of popular puzzle books, this volume requires no background in formal logic. The puzzles become progressively more complex, and complete solutions appear at the end. Puzzle authority Martin Gardner provides an Introduction to the text, which is enhanced bysixty charming illustrations. An ingenious book, declared the Boston Globe, magnificent for those who like conundrums, amusing for those who don''t, and a tribute in itself to the genius of Lewis Carroll.
£10.79
Dover Publications Inc. Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes
Book SynopsisJoin Holmes and Watson as they examine interrupted games to deduce prior moves. A series of increasingly complex chess mysteries culminates in a double murder perpetrated by Professor Moriarty. The master sleuth instructs his companion (and us) in the intricacies of retrograde analysis; readers need only a knowledge of how the pieces move.
£11.87
Sagging Meniscus Press Mixed Bag
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Oxford University Press To Mock a Mockingbird and Other Logic Puzzles
Book SynopsisIn 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.Table of ContentsPART I - LOGIC PUZZLES; PART II - KNIGHTS, KNAVES, AND THE FOUNTAIN OF YOUTH; PART III - TO MOCK A MOCKINGBIRD; PART IV - SINGING BIRDS; PART V - THE MASTER FOREST; PART VI - THE GRAND QUESTION
£12.34
Indiana University Press Who Knows
Book SynopsisInvites reader to explore some beautiful and some horrible ideas related to religious and mystical thought. This book focuses on the doctrine of Hell and its justification, presenting arguments on both sides of the controversy.Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents:PrefaceI Wherefore the Why'sII Through Dark CloudsIII Cosmic ConsciousnessIndex
£13.29
Dover Publications Inc. The GoDelian Puzzle Book
Book SynopsisThese recreational logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Gödel''s incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and other concepts. Written by a distinguished mathematician and creator of numerous popular puzzle books, this volume requires no background in formal logic and will delight readers of all ages.
£12.14
HarperCollins Tao Is Silent The
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Princeton University Press The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects
Book SynopsisThe history of mathematics is filled with major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems. Problems of interest to gamblers led to the modern theory of probability, for example, and surreal numbers were inspired by the game of Go. Yet even with such groundbreaking findings and a wealth of popular-level books exploring puzzlesTrade ReviewOne of Choice's Outstanding Academic Titles for 2016 "Beineke and Rosenhouse have compiled and edited a fantastic collection of essays dealing with popular mathematics... Anybody who enjoys reading about recreation mathematics should definitely explore these writings."--ChoiceTable of ContentsForeword by Raymond Smullyan vii Preface and Acknowledgments x PART I VIGNETTES 1 Should You Be Happy? 3 Peter Winkler 2 One-Move Puzzles with Mathematical Content 11 Anany Levitin 3 Minimalist Approaches to Figurative Maze Design 29 Robert Bosch, Tim Chartier, and Michael Rowan 4 Some ABCs of Graphs and Games 43 Jennifer Beineke and Lowell Beineke PART II PROBLEMS INSPIRED BY CLASSIC PUZZLES 5 Solving the Tower of Hanoi with Random Moves 65 Max A. Alekseyev and Toby Berger 6 Groups Associated to Tetraflexagons 81 Julie Beier and Carolyn Yackel 7 Parallel Weighings of Coins 95 Tanya Khovanova 8 Analysis of Crossword Puzzle Difficulty Using a Random Graph Process 105 John K. McSweeney 9 From the Outside In: Solving Generalizations of the Slothouber-Graatsma-Conway Puzzle 127 Derek Smith PART III PLAYING CARDS 10 Gallia Est Omnis Divisa in Partes Quattuor 139 Neil Calkin and Colm Mulcahy 11 Heartless Poker 149 Dominic Lanphier and Laura Taalman 12 An Introduction to Gilbreath Numbers 163 Robert W. Vallin PART IV GAMES 13 Tic-tac-toe on Affine Planes 175 Maureen T. Carroll and Steven T. Dougherty 14 Error Detection and Correction Using SET 199 Gary Gordon and Elizabeth McMahon 15 Connection Games and Sperner's Lemma 213 David Molnar PART V FIBONACCI NUMBERS 16 The Cookie Monster Problem 231 Leigh Marie Braswell and Tanya Khovanova 17 Representing Numbers Using Fibonacci Variants 245 Stephen K. Lucas About the Editors 261 About the Contributors 263 Index 269
£40.50
Ediciones Cátedra Como Se Llama Este Libro What is the Name of
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Taylor & Francis Inc Logical Labyrinths
Book SynopsisThis book features a unique approach to the teaching of mathematical logic by putting it in the context of the puzzles and paradoxes of common language and rational thought. It serves as a bridge from the author’s puzzle books to his technical writing in the fascinating field of mathematical logic. Using the logic of lying and truth-telling, the author introduces the readers to informal reasoning preparing them for the formal study of symbolic logic, from propositional logic to first-order logic, a subject that has many important applications to philosophy, mathematics, and computer science. The book includes a journey through the amazing labyrinths of infinity, which have stirred the imagination of mankind as much, if not more, than any other subject.Trade ReviewWith the various bridge courses springing around campuses, this book could be used for a first glimpse into mathematical logic. The author has reached a delicate balance between simple fun with the various puzzles that fill the book and the formality of an introductory course on mathematical logic.—MAA Reviews, March 2009In addition to being one of the most important mathematical logicians of our time, Raymond Smullyan is also a master inventor and purveyor of logic puzzles... Much of Smullyan's technical work consists of ingenious ways to generalize features of formal systems and crucial results in mathematical logic. That is what is highlighted in this book. Indeed, to motivate the presentation of the logic, he presents a clean and insightful generalization of many of the logic puzzles themselves. ... Given Smullyan's vitality, we can all hope for the sequel.—Stewart Shapiro, Mathematical Reviews, October 2009If mathematics educators wish to narrow the gap between expert and novice, they must understand the factors in the teaching and learning of proof, design rich explorations, and establish an environment in which these explorations are possible. The author accomplishes this admirably.—Premalatha Junius, Mathematics Teacher, November 2009Smullyan ... has earned fame for writing a small shelf of puzzle books. ... [Here] he provides a textbook on first-order logic, suitable for classroom use but animated with the lively imagination that makes his puzzle books a delight.—D.V. Feldman, CHOICE, February 2010Table of ContentsPreface, I Be Wise, Generalize!, II Be Wise, Symbolize!, III Infinity, IV Fundamental Results in First-Order Logic, V Axiom Systems, VI More on First-Order Logic, References
£94.99
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Reflections: The Magic, Music And Mathematics Of
Book SynopsisThis is an exciting if not rambling account of events of Raymond Smullyan's four lives — as a mathematical logician, musician, magician, and author — together with thoughts that come to his mind as he recalls them. This book includes topics from some of Smullyan's twenty-six books, as well as many of his favorite anecdotes and jokes. It also presents some generalizations of theorems of the great logicians Gödel and Tarski, and discusses logic in general, and how he won his wife with a logic trick! Smullyan also relates some of his teaching experiences, and expresses his views on mathematical education, and how our present textbooks are primarily responsible for its decline! About his life as a pianist, Smullyan relates a good deal about his experiences with the Piano Society — a wonderful organization to which he is a staunch contributor, and how he has had such delightful relations with many of its members. Last but not least, Smullyan recounts how he has known some lovely ladies over the years.Table of ContentsEarly Childhood; Later Childhood; High School; Beginning College; Chicago, University, Music, Magic; Dartmouth, Princeton; After Graduation; Diagonalization, Love, Logic, Letters; The Piano Society; Lovely Ladies I Have Known;
£51.30
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Reflections: The Magic, Music And Mathematics Of
Book SynopsisThis is an exciting if not rambling account of events of Raymond Smullyan's four lives — as a mathematical logician, musician, magician, and author — together with thoughts that come to his mind as he recalls them. This book includes topics from some of Smullyan's twenty-six books, as well as many of his favorite anecdotes and jokes. It also presents some generalizations of theorems of the great logicians Gödel and Tarski, and discusses logic in general, and how he won his wife with a logic trick! Smullyan also relates some of his teaching experiences, and expresses his views on mathematical education, and how our present textbooks are primarily responsible for its decline! About his life as a pianist, Smullyan relates a good deal about his experiences with the Piano Society — a wonderful organization to which he is a staunch contributor, and how he has had such delightful relations with many of its members. Last but not least, Smullyan recounts how he has known some lovely ladies over the years.Table of ContentsEarly Childhood; Later Childhood; High School; Beginning College; Chicago, University, Music, Magic; Dartmouth, Princeton; After Graduation; Diagonalization, Love, Logic, Letters; The Piano Society; Lovely Ladies I Have Known;
£22.80
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Magic Garden Of George B And Other Logic Puzzles,
Book SynopsisRaymond Smullyan presents a bombshell puzzle so startling that it seems incredible that there could be any solution at all! But there is indeed a solution — moreover, one that requires a chain of lesser puzzles to be solved first. The reader is thus taken on a journey through a maze of subsidiary problems that has all the earmarks of an entertaining detective story.This book leads the unwary reader into deep logical waters through seductively entertaining logic puzzles. One example is Boolean algebra with such weird looking equations as 1+1=0 — a subject which today plays a vital role, not only in mathematical systems, but also in computer science and artificial intelligence.Table of ContentsIt's All A Question of Logic: Puzzles or Monkey Tricks; Which Lady; Which Witch; Which Island; McGregor's Arithmetic Tricks; Ask Eldon White; Al, the Chemist; Sane or Mad; The Strange Case of McSnurd; The Knight-Knave Disease; Human or Android; Variable Lying and Paradox; The Magic Garden: George's Garden; Some Neighboring Gardens; The Grand Problem Solved!; Boolean Gardens and Variable Liars; Propositional Logic and Boolean Gardens; The Boolean Theory of Sets; Boolean Algebras in General; Boolean Gardens Revisited; Another Grand Problem; George Boole and Mathematical Logic;
£45.60
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Magic Garden Of George B And Other Logic Puzzles,
Book SynopsisRaymond Smullyan presents a bombshell puzzle so startling that it seems incredible that there could be any solution at all! But there is indeed a solution — moreover, one that requires a chain of lesser puzzles to be solved first. The reader is thus taken on a journey through a maze of subsidiary problems that has all the earmarks of an entertaining detective story.This book leads the unwary reader into deep logical waters through seductively entertaining logic puzzles. One example is Boolean algebra with such weird looking equations as 1+1=0 — a subject which today plays a vital role, not only in mathematical systems, but also in computer science and artificial intelligence.Table of ContentsIt's All A Question of Logic: Puzzles or Monkey Tricks; Which Lady; Which Witch; Which Island; McGregor's Arithmetic Tricks; Ask Eldon White; Al, the Chemist; Sane or Mad; The Strange Case of McSnurd; The Knight-Knave Disease; Human or Android; Variable Lying and Paradox; The Magic Garden: George's Garden; Some Neighboring Gardens; The Grand Problem Solved!; Boolean Gardens and Variable Liars; Propositional Logic and Boolean Gardens; The Boolean Theory of Sets; Boolean Algebras in General; Boolean Gardens Revisited; Another Grand Problem; George Boole and Mathematical Logic;
£22.80
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Beginner's Further Guide To Mathematical Logic, A
Book Synopsis'A wealth of examples to which solutions are given permeate the text so the reader will certainly be active.'The Mathematical GazetteThis is the final book written by the late great puzzle master and logician, Dr. Raymond Smullyan.This book is a sequel to my Beginner's Guide to Mathematical Logic.The previous volume deals with elements of propositional and first-order logic, contains a bit on formal systems and recursion, and concludes with chapters on Gödel's famous incompleteness theorem, along with related results.The present volume begins with a bit more on propositional and first-order logic, followed by what I would call a 'fein' chapter, which simultaneously generalizes some results from recursion theory, first-order arithmetic systems, and what I dub a 'decision machine.' Then come five chapters on formal systems, recursion theory and metamathematical applications in a general setting. The concluding five chapters are on the beautiful subject of combinatory logic, which is not only intriguing in its own right, but has important applications to computer science. Argonne National Laboratory is especially involved in these applications, and I am proud to say that its members have found use for some of my results in combinatory logic.This book does not cover such important subjects as set theory, model theory, proof theory, and modern developments in recursion theory, but the reader, after studying this volume, will be amply prepared for the study of these more advanced topics.
£19.00
World Scientific Publishing Co Pte Ltd Beginner's Further Guide To Mathematical Logic, A
Book Synopsis'A wealth of examples to which solutions are given permeate the text so the reader will certainly be active.'The Mathematical GazetteThis is the final book written by the late great puzzle master and logician, Dr. Raymond Smullyan.This book is a sequel to my Beginner's Guide to Mathematical Logic.The previous volume deals with elements of propositional and first-order logic, contains a bit on formal systems and recursion, and concludes with chapters on Gödel's famous incompleteness theorem, along with related results.The present volume begins with a bit more on propositional and first-order logic, followed by what I would call a 'fein' chapter, which simultaneously generalizes some results from recursion theory, first-order arithmetic systems, and what I dub a 'decision machine.' Then come five chapters on formal systems, recursion theory and metamathematical applications in a general setting. The concluding five chapters are on the beautiful subject of combinatory logic, which is not only intriguing in its own right, but has important applications to computer science. Argonne National Laboratory is especially involved in these applications, and I am proud to say that its members have found use for some of my results in combinatory logic.This book does not cover such important subjects as set theory, model theory, proof theory, and modern developments in recursion theory, but the reader, after studying this volume, will be amply prepared for the study of these more advanced topics.
£53.20
Dover Publications Inc. The Lady or the Tiger And Other Logic Puzzles
Book SynopsisCreated by a renowned puzzle master, 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. 1982 edition.
£999.99
Gedisa Caballeros, Bribones Y Pajaros Egocentric
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Gedisa Enigma de Scherezade, El
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Gedisa La Isla del Silencio Parcial
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Gedisa Robots, Cantor Y El Infinito
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Ediciones Cátedra La Dama O El Tigre The Lady or The Tiger y Otros
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£999.99
Gedisa Bosques Curiosos Y Pajaros Aristocraticos. Juegos
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£18.71
