What Is the Name of This Book?

    What Is the Name of This Book?

    The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles

    By Raymond M. Smullyan

    $16.95

    Publication Date: 21st July 2011

    "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 Review
    If 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, l... Read More
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    "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 Review
    If 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, l... Read More
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    "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 Review
    If 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.

    Reprint of the Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1978 edition.

    Bonus Editorial Feature

    Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017), mathematician, logician, magician, creator of extraordinary puzzles, philosopher, pianist, and man of many parts. The first Dover book by Raymond Smullyan was First-Order Logic (1995). Recent years have brought a number of his magical books of logic and math puzzles: The Lady or the Tiger (2009); Satan, Cantor and Infinity (2009); an original, never-before-published collection, King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles (2010); and Set Theory and the Continuum Problem (with Melvin Fitting, also reprinted by Dover in 2010). More will be coming in subsequent years.

    In the Author's Own Words:
    "Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini."

    "Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements: they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong.'" — Raymond Smullyan

    Critical Acclaim for The Lady or the Tiger:
    "Another scintillating collection of brilliant problems and paradoxes by the most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived." — Martin Gardner

    Details
    • Price: $16.95
    • Pages: 256
    • Publisher: Dover Publications
    • Imprint: Dover Publications
    • Series: Dover Math Games & Puzzles
    • Publication Date: 21st July 2011
    • Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
    • ISBN: 9780486481982
    • Format: Paperback
    • Age: 12-99
    • BISACs:
      MATHEMATICS / Logic
      MATHEMATICS / Recreations & Games
    Author Bio
    Raymond Smullyan received his PhD from Princeton University and taught at Dartmouth, Princeton, Indiana University, and New York's Lehman College. Best known for his mathematical and creative logic puzzles and games, he was also a concert pianist and a magician. He wrote over a dozen books of logic puzzles and texts on mathematical logic.
     
    Raymond Smullyan: The Merry Prankster
    Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017), mathematician, logician, magician, creator of extraordinary puzzles, philosopher, pianist, and man of many parts. The first Dover book by Raymond Smullyan was First-Order Logic (1995). Recent years have brought a number of his magical books of logic and math puzzles: The Lady or the Tiger (2009); Satan, Cantor and Infinity (2009); an original, never-before-published collection, King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles (2010); and Set Theory and the Continuum Problem (with Melvin Fitting, also reprinted by Dover in 2010). More will be coming in subsequent years.

    In the Author's Own Words:
    "Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini."

    "Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements: they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong.'" — Raymond Smullyan

    Critical Acclaim for The Lady or the Tiger:
    "Another scintillating collection of brilliant problems and paradoxes by the most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived." — Martin Gardner

    Table of Contents
    Part One. Logical Recreations
    1. Fooled?
    2. Puzzles and Monkey Tricks
    3. Knights and Knaves
    4. Alice in the Forest of Forgetfulness
    Part Two. Portia's Caskets and Other Mysteries
    5. The Mystery of Portia's Casket
    6. From the Files of Inspector Craig
    7. How to Avoid Werewolves--And Other Practical Bits of Advice
    8. Logic Puzzles
    9. Bellini or Cellini?
    Part Three. Weird Tales
    10. The Island of Baal
    11. The Island of Zombies
    12. Is Dracula Still Alive?
    Part Four. Logic Is a Many-Splendored Thing
    13. Logic and Life
    14. How to Prove Anything
    15. From Paradox to Truth
    16. Godel's Discovery
    "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 Review
    If 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.

    Reprint of the Prentice-Hall Inc., Englewood Cliffs, New Jersey, 1978 edition.

    Bonus Editorial Feature

    Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017), mathematician, logician, magician, creator of extraordinary puzzles, philosopher, pianist, and man of many parts. The first Dover book by Raymond Smullyan was First-Order Logic (1995). Recent years have brought a number of his magical books of logic and math puzzles: The Lady or the Tiger (2009); Satan, Cantor and Infinity (2009); an original, never-before-published collection, King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles (2010); and Set Theory and the Continuum Problem (with Melvin Fitting, also reprinted by Dover in 2010). More will be coming in subsequent years.

    In the Author's Own Words:
    "Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini."

    "Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements: they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong.'" — Raymond Smullyan

    Critical Acclaim for The Lady or the Tiger:
    "Another scintillating collection of brilliant problems and paradoxes by the most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived." — Martin Gardner

    • Price: $16.95
    • Pages: 256
    • Publisher: Dover Publications
    • Imprint: Dover Publications
    • Series: Dover Math Games & Puzzles
    • Publication Date: 21st July 2011
    • Trim Size: 5.5 x 8.5 in
    • ISBN: 9780486481982
    • Format: Paperback
    • Age: 12-99
    • BISACs:
      MATHEMATICS / Logic
      MATHEMATICS / Recreations & Games
    Raymond Smullyan received his PhD from Princeton University and taught at Dartmouth, Princeton, Indiana University, and New York's Lehman College. Best known for his mathematical and creative logic puzzles and games, he was also a concert pianist and a magician. He wrote over a dozen books of logic puzzles and texts on mathematical logic.
     
    Raymond Smullyan: The Merry Prankster
    Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017), mathematician, logician, magician, creator of extraordinary puzzles, philosopher, pianist, and man of many parts. The first Dover book by Raymond Smullyan was First-Order Logic (1995). Recent years have brought a number of his magical books of logic and math puzzles: The Lady or the Tiger (2009); Satan, Cantor and Infinity (2009); an original, never-before-published collection, King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles (2010); and Set Theory and the Continuum Problem (with Melvin Fitting, also reprinted by Dover in 2010). More will be coming in subsequent years.

    In the Author's Own Words:
    "Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini."

    "Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements: they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong.'" — Raymond Smullyan

    Critical Acclaim for The Lady or the Tiger:
    "Another scintillating collection of brilliant problems and paradoxes by the most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived." — Martin Gardner

    Part One. Logical Recreations
    1. Fooled?
    2. Puzzles and Monkey Tricks
    3. Knights and Knaves
    4. Alice in the Forest of Forgetfulness
    Part Two. Portia's Caskets and Other Mysteries
    5. The Mystery of Portia's Casket
    6. From the Files of Inspector Craig
    7. How to Avoid Werewolves--And Other Practical Bits of Advice
    8. Logic Puzzles
    9. Bellini or Cellini?
    Part Three. Weird Tales
    10. The Island of Baal
    11. The Island of Zombies
    12. Is Dracula Still Alive?
    Part Four. Logic Is a Many-Splendored Thing
    13. Logic and Life
    14. How to Prove Anything
    15. From Paradox to Truth
    16. Godel's Discovery