What is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles

By:

Smullyan Raymond M

Publication details: Dover Publications 1978 USADescription: 256ISBN:

9780486481982

DDC classification:

658 SMU

Summary: "The most original, most profound, and most humorous collection of recreational logic and math problems ever written." — Martin Gardner, Scientific American"The value of the book lies in the wealth of ingenious puzzles. They afford amusement, vigorous exercise, and instruction." — Willard Van Orman Quine, The New York Times Book ReviewIf you're intrigued by puzzles and paradoxes, these 200 mind-bending logic puzzles, riddles, and diversions will thrill you with challenges to your powers of reason and common sense. Raymond M. Smullyan — a celebrated mathematician, logician, magician, and author — presents a logical labyrinth of more than 200 increasingly complex problems. The puzzles delve into Gödel's undecidability theorem and other examples of the deepest paradoxes of logic and set theory. Detailed solutions follow each puzzle. Source: https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/0486481980/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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Item type	Current library	Collection	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Book	Main Library General Management	Reference book	658 SMU (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		118878

"The most original, most profound, and most humorous collection of recreational logic and math problems ever written." — Martin Gardner, Scientific American"The value of the book lies in the wealth of ingenious puzzles. They afford amusement, vigorous exercise, and instruction." — Willard Van Orman Quine, The New York Times Book ReviewIf you're intrigued by puzzles and paradoxes, these 200 mind-bending logic puzzles, riddles, and diversions will thrill you with challenges to your powers of reason and common sense. Raymond M. Smullyan — a celebrated mathematician, logician, magician, and author — presents a logical labyrinth of more than 200 increasingly complex problems. The puzzles delve into Gödel's undecidability theorem and other examples of the deepest paradoxes of logic and set theory. Detailed solutions follow each puzzle.

Source: https://www.amazon.in/gp/product/0486481980/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o04_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1

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