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To Mock a Mockingbird
Raymond Smullyan
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Description for To Mock a Mockingbird
Paperback. In 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. Num Pages: 256 pages. BIC Classification: PBCD; WDK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 196 x 130 x 16. Weight in Grams: 190.
In 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. In the first part of the book, he transports us once again to that wonderful realm where knights, knaves, twin sisters, quadruplet brothers, gods, demons, and mortals either always tell the truth or always lie, and where truth-seekers are set a variety of fascinating problems. The section culminates in an enchanting and profound ... Read more
In 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. In the first part of the book, he transports us once again to that wonderful realm where knights, knaves, twin sisters, quadruplet brothers, gods, demons, and mortals either always tell the truth or always lie, and where truth-seekers are set a variety of fascinating problems. The section culminates in an enchanting and profound ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Oxford University Press United Kingdom
Number of pages
256
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2000
Condition
New
Weight
189g
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Oxford, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780192801425
SKU
V9780192801425
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Ref
99-40
About Raymond Smullyan
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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