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The Riddle of Scheherazade

Author : Raymond Smullyan
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307819833
Total Pages : 219 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book The Riddle of Scheherazade written by Raymond Smullyan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-08-22 with total page 219 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In his new book, Raymond Smullyan, grand vizier of the logic puzzle, joins Scheherazade, a charming young woman of “fantastic logical ingenuity,” to give us 1001 hours of brain-teasing fun. Scheherazade, we find, has gotten back into hot water with the king, and is once more in danger of losing her head at down. But, thinking quickly, she tempts the king to stay her execution by posing him the most delightfully devious mathematical and logic puzzle ever invented. They keep him guessing for many more nights until the fatal hour has passed, and she keeps her head. The Riddle of Scheherazade includes several wonderful old chestnuts and many fiendishly original puzzles, 225 in all. There are logic tricks and number games, metapuzzles (puzzles about puzzles), liar/truth-teller exercises, Gödelian brian twisters, baffling paradoxes, and an excursion, under Scheherazade’s expert guidance, into an amusing new field invented by Smullyan, called “coercive” logic, in which the answer to a problem can actually change the fate of the puzzler! An absolute must for all puzzle fans—from the middle-school whiz to the sophisticated mathematician or computer scientist.

Riddle of Scheherazade

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Random House Value Pub
ISBN 13 : 9780517370292
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book Riddle of Scheherazade written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Random House Value Pub. This book was released on 1999-05-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With a great wittiness, the author re-creates Scherezade, the young protagonist of "The thousand nights and a night, who will delay her execution now devising deliciously tortuous logical and mathematical puzzles and wonderful old riddles that will let us put to use our mental skills.

King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486474356
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Book Synopsis King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles by : Raymond M. Smullyan

Download or read book King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2010-04-21 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This fanciful, original collection for readers of all ages features arithmetic puzzles, logic problems related to crime detection, and logic and arithmetic puzzles involving King Arthur and his Dogs of the Round Table.

The Lady Or the Tiger?

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 048647027X
Total Pages : 242 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book The Lady Or the Tiger? written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2009-01-01 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Another scintillating collection of brilliant problems and paradoxes by the most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived." — Martin Gardner. Inspired by the classic tale of a prisoner's dilemma, these whimsically themed challenges involve paradoxes about probability, time, and change; metapuzzles; and self-referentiality. Nineteen chapters advance in difficulty from relatively simple to highly complex.

This Book Needs No Title

Author : Raymond Smullyan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0671628313
Total Pages : 200 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (716 download)

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Download or read book This Book Needs No Title written by Raymond Smullyan and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 1986-10-15 with total page 200 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From Simon & Schuster, This Book Needs No Title is Raymond Smullyan's budget of living paradoxes—the author of What is the Name of This Book? Including eighty paradoxes, logical labyrinths, and intriguing enigmas progress from light fables and fancies to challenging Zen exercises and a novella and probe the timeless questions of philosophy and life.

Satan, Cantor, And Infinity And Other Mind-bogglin

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307819825
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (78 download)

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Download or read book Satan, Cantor, And Infinity And Other Mind-bogglin written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two hundred new and challenging logic puzzles—the simplest brainteaser to the most complex paradoxes in contemporary mathematical thinking—from our topmost puzzlemaster (“the most entertaining logician who ever lived,” Martin Gardner has called him). Our guide to the puzzles is the Sorcerer, who resides on the Island of Knights and Knaves, where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie, and he introduces us to the amazing magic—logic—that enables to discover which inhabitants are which. Then, in a picaresque adventure in logic, he takes us to the planet Og, to the Island of Partial Silence, and to a land where metallic robots wearing strings of capital letters are noisily duplicating and dismantling themselves and others. The reader’s job is to figure out how it all works. Finally, we accompany the Sorcerer on an alluring tour of Infinity which includes George Cantor’s amazing mathematical insights. The tour (and the book) ends with Satan devising a diabolical puzzle for one of Cantor’s prize students—who outwits him! In sum: a devilish magician’s cornucopia of puzzles—a delight for every age and level of ability.

The Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria

Author : Charles Godfrey Leland
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 178 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The Hundred Riddles of the Fairy Bellaria written by Charles Godfrey Leland and published by . This book was released on 1892 with total page 178 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Puzzle Instinct

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780253217080
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book The Puzzle Instinct written by Marcel Danesi and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2004-02-20 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Humans are the only animals who create and solve puzzles--for the sheer pleasure of it--and there is no obvious genetic reason why we would do this. Marcel Danesi explores the psychology of puzzles and puzzling, with scores of classic examples. His pioneering book is both entertaining and enlightening." --Will Shortz, Crossword Editor, The New York Times "... Puzzle fanatics will enjoy the many riddles, illusions, cryptograms and other mind-benders offered for analysis." --Psychology Today "... a bristlingly clear... always intriguing survey of the history and rationale of puzzles.... A] splendid study...." --Knight Ridder Newspapers

What is the Name of this Book?

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Dover Math Games & Puzzles
ISBN 13 : 9780486481982
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (819 download)

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Download or read book What is the Name of this Book? written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Dover Math Games & Puzzles. This book was released on 2011 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A celebrated mathematician presents more than 200 increasingly complex problems that delve into Gödel's undecidability theorem and other examples of the deepest paradoxes of logic and set theory. Solutions.

Modelling Puzzles in First Order Logic

Author : Adrian Groza
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030625478
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (36 download)

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Download or read book Modelling Puzzles in First Order Logic written by Adrian Groza and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2021-10-26 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Keeping students involved and actively learning is challenging. Instructors in computer science are aware of the cognitive value of modelling puzzles and often use logical puzzles as an efficient pedagogical instrument to engage students and develop problem-solving skills. This unique book is a comprehensive resource that offers teachers and students fun activities to teach and learn logic. It provides new, complete, and running formalisation in Propositional and First Order Logic for over 130 logical puzzles, including Sudoku-like puzzles, zebra-like puzzles, island of truth, lady and tigers, grid puzzles, strange numbers, or self-reference puzzles. Solving puzzles with theorem provers can be an effective cognitive incentive to motivate students to learn logic. They will find a ready-to-use format which illustrates how to model each puzzle, provides running implementations, and explains each solution. This concise and easy-to-follow textbook is a much-needed support tool for students willing to explore beyond the introductory level of learning logic and lecturers looking for examples to heighten student engagement in their computer science courses.

Alice in Puzzle-land

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486482006
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (864 download)

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Download or read book Alice in Puzzle-land written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass populate these 88 intriguing puzzles. Mathematician Raymond Smullyan re-creates the spirit of Lewis Carroll's writings in puzzles involving word play, logic and metalogic, and philosophical paradoxes. Challenges range from easy to difficult and include solutions, plus 60 charming illustrations. "An ingenious book." — Boston Globe.

An Anthropology of Puzzles

Author : Marcel Danesi
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1350089877
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book An Anthropology of Puzzles written by Marcel Danesi and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2018-12-13 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An Anthropology of Puzzles argues that the human brain is a "puzzling organ" which allows humans to literally solve their own problems of existence through puzzle format. Noting the presence of puzzles everywhere in everyday life, Marcel Danesi looks at puzzles in society since the dawn of history, showing how their presence has guided large sections of human history, from discoveries in mathematics to disquisitions in philosophy. Danesi examines the cognitive processes that are involved in puzzle making and solving, and connects them to the actual physical manifestations of classic puzzles. Building on a concept of puzzles as based on Jungian archetypes, such as the river crossing image, the path metaphor, and the journey, Danesi suggests this could be one way to understand the public fascination with puzzles. As well as drawing on underlying mental archetypes, the act of solving puzzles also provides an outlet to move beyond biological evolution, and Danesi shows that puzzles could be the product of the same basic neural mechanism that produces language and culture. Finally, Danesi explores how understanding puzzles can be a new way of understanding our human culture.

Giants

Author : Carlos Perez Valderrama
Publisher : Dark Horse Comics
ISBN 13 : 150670624X
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (67 download)

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Download or read book Giants written by Carlos Perez Valderrama and published by Dark Horse Comics. This book was released on 2018-08-14 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Greed and ambition collide with survival and the love of family in a post-apocalyptic world ruled by giant monsters whose only goal is destruction! A cataclysm of unknown origin unleashed a race of massive creatures whose presence has driven humanity underground. There, two orphans discover that the most dangerous monster is ambition, which unchecked, will grow until it devours you. In their first work for American comics, the Valderrama Bros. have layered a modern day kaiju story with a personal tale of a friendship gone wrong, and how the decisions we make can change our world . . . and seal our fates!

Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers: Math, Logic & Word Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain (Alex Bellos Puzzle Books)

Author : Alex Bellos
Publisher : The Experiment, LLC
ISBN 13 : 1615197192
Total Pages : 389 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (151 download)

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Download or read book Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers: Math, Logic & Word Puzzles to Challenge Your Brain (Alex Bellos Puzzle Books) written by Alex Bellos and published by The Experiment, LLC. This book was released on 2020-10-27 with total page 389 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Put your wits—and survival instincts—to the test! Publisher’s Note: Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers was previously published in the UK under the title So You Think You’ve Got Problems? In Perilous Problems for Puzzle Lovers, Alex Bellos collects 125 of the world’s greatest stumpers—many dangerous to your person, and all dangerous to your pride. Brace yourself to wrestle with wordplay, grapple with geometry, and scramble for survival. For example . . . Ten lions and a sheep are in a pen. Any lion who eats the sheep will fall asleep. A sleeping lion will be eaten by another lion, who falls asleep in turn. If the lions are all perfect logicians, what happens? Bellos pairs his fiendish brainteasers with fascinating history, so you’ll meet Alcuin, Sam Loyd, and other puzzle masters of yore—in between deranged despots and wily jailers with an unaccountable taste for riddles. Will you make it out alive? And what about the sheep?

The Magic Garden of George B. and Other Logic Puzzles

Author : Raymond Smullyan
Publisher : Polimetrica s.a.s.
ISBN 13 : 8876990666
Total Pages : 183 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (769 download)

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Download or read book The Magic Garden of George B. and Other Logic Puzzles written by Raymond Smullyan and published by Polimetrica s.a.s.. This book was released on 2007 with total page 183 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Four Lives

Author : Jason Rosenhouse
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486782948
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (867 download)

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Download or read book Four Lives written by Jason Rosenhouse and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-02-20 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This "best of" hardcover collection of works by Raymond Smullyan features logic puzzles, musings on mathematical logic and paradoxes, chess problems, and thoughts on the philosophy of religion, plus personal tributes to the author.

Midlife: Humanity's Secret Weapon

Author : Andrew Jamieson
Publisher : New York Review of Books
ISBN 13 : 1912559390
Total Pages : 124 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (125 download)

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Download or read book Midlife: Humanity's Secret Weapon written by Andrew Jamieson and published by New York Review of Books. This book was released on 2022-05-10 with total page 124 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A radical new take on one of humanity's most misunderstood periods of transition: the midlife crisis. Only two species of mammal have a post-reproductive life that lasts longer than their reproductive life: killer whales, whose elders are able to sniff out food supplies over vast oceanic distances to keep their pods fed, and Homo sapiens. While the evolutionary purpose of the killer whale’s extensive life seems clear, what is the point of ours? This was a question that intrigued the psychoanalyst Carl Jung, who observed that if a culture is to maintain its deepest, profoundest roots while moving forward to embrace the challenges of historical and technological change, it needs to find an equilibrium between the energy, vigor, and creativity of those in the ego-driven first half of life and the experience, dignity, and wisdom of those in the second. But to make it to that second half of life, we need to traverse the dreaded middle years, when so many of us find ourselves discontented with our jobs, unhappy in our relationships, and lamenting our fetishized youths. In this highly readable and groundbreaking new book, the psychoanalyst Andrew Jamieson examines the Jungian concept of the midlife crisis to show how it is an essential evolutionary and social rite of passage that we all must proceed through—a set of challenges that we either take advantage of or ignore, depending on whether our complex or neurosis blocks this developmental impulse. Drawing on history, psychology, science, and literature, Jamieson shows just how ubiquitous, and crucial, the “midlife crisis” is, and the devastating consequences for society at large if we continue to regard it as something we can, and should, avoid.