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Raymond 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.
It'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
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Raymond 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.
