The Lady or the Tiger?: And Other Logic Puzzles - Softcover

Smullyan, Raymond M.

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9780192801432: The Lady or the Tiger?: And Other Logic Puzzles

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ISBN 10: 0192801430 ISBN 13: 9780192801432

Publisher: Oxford Paperbacks, 2001

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This text presents a series of logic puzzles, ranging from the simplest problems to the most tantalizing complexities. An array of imaginary characters - sane and insane vampires, psychiatrists, dreamers, hermits, kings, knights and knaves - pose questions, giving just enough information to enable the reader to solve problems of increasing difficulty. The final section of the book, "The Mystery of the Monte Carlo Lock", is a mathematical novel. Beginning with the problem of finding a combination to open a safe, Inspector Craig of Scotland Yard finds himself in ever deeper mathematical waters, which lead eventually to the very heart of Godel's revolutionary theory of undecidability.

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About the Author:

Raymond Smullyan, a well-known mathematician and logician and the author of many books, is Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University
and Professor Emeritus of the City University of New York-Lehman College and
Graduate Center.

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