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Satan, Cantor, And Infinity and Other Mind-Boggling Puzzles
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by Raymond M. Smullyan
Sales Rank: 109591
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$20.99
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Hardcover: 270 pages
Publisher: Knopf November 24, 1992
Language: English
ISBN-10: 0679406883
ISBN-13: 978-0679406884
Product Dimensions:
8.5 x 6 x 1 inches
Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
From Publishers Weekly
In Smullyan's latest challenging collection of logic puzzles, the Sorcerer, a logician who uses logic so cleverly it seems like magic, visits an island where intelligent robots create other robots. King Zorn, Princess Annabelle, truth-telling knights and lying knaves lighten the presentation of puzzles as the Sorcerer explains the pioneering discoveries of mathematician Georg Cantor (1845-1918) who proved that there are different orders of infinity, and as he delves into paradoxes about probability, time and change. Smullyan ( The Lady or the Tiger? ) tosses in metapuzzles (which are solved on the basis of knowing that certain other puzzles can or cannot be solved) and explores self-referentiality, a property crucial to Kurt Godel's famous incompleteness theorem. The Sorcerer closes with a tale of how Satan is outwitted by a student of Cantor's. A mind-stretching entertainment for the serious, dedicated puzzle-solver.
Copyright 1992 Reed Business Information, Inc.
Product Description
The author of What Is the Name of This Book? presents a compilation of more than two hundred challenging new logic puzzles--ranging from simple brainteasers to complex mathematical paradoxes.
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