To Mock a Mockingbird: And Other Logic Puzzles Including an Amazing Adventure in Combinatory Logic - Softcover

Smullyan, Raymond M

 
9781958823026: To Mock a Mockingbird: And Other Logic Puzzles Including an Amazing Adventure in Combinatory Logic
Softcover
ISBN 10: 1958823023 ISBN 13: 9781958823026
Publisher: What Is the Name of This Press, 2025

Synopsis

To Mock a Mockingbird is Raymond Smullyan's tour of combinatory logic, in the form of ingenious logic puzzles.

After an introductory section with elementary problems set in Smullyan's wonderful world of knights who always tell the truth and knaves who always lie, we embark upon the main adventure, which Smullyan playfully casts into a realm of enchanted forests, talking birds and bird sociologists, and are led through puzzles of increasing complexity until we reach the Master Forest and-thanks to Gödel's famous theorem-a final revelation.

To Mock a Mockingbird will delight all puzzle lovers-curious neophytes as well as serious students of logic, mathematics, or computer science.

This corrected and freshly typeset edition includes a new foreword by Prof. Melvin Fitting.

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Publisher
What Is the Name of This Press
Publication date
2025
Language
English
ISBN 10 
1958823023
ISBN 13 
9781958823026
Binding
Paperback
Number of pages
252