"The author presents a bombshell puzzle so startling that it seems inscredible 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"--Publisher's description. Read more...
Abstract:
The author presents a bombshell puzzle so startling that it seems incredible that there could be any solution at all! Read more...
Author(s): Smullyan, Raymond M
Publisher: World Scientific
Year: 2015
Language: English
Pages: 170
Tags: Logic puzzles.;Mathematical recreations.
Content: 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.
