Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307819825
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
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.
Satan, Cantor, And Infinity And Other Mind-bogglin
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307819825
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Knopf
ISBN: 0307819825
Category : Games & Activities
Languages : en
Pages : 281
Book Description
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.
Satan, Cantor, and Infinity
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
ISBN: 9780679406884
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book 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.
Publisher: Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
ISBN: 9780679406884
Category : Games
Languages : en
Pages : 270
Book 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.
This Book Needs No Title
Author: Raymond Smullyan
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671628313
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Simon and Schuster
ISBN: 0671628313
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 200
Book Description
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.
Roads to Infinity
Author: John Stillwell
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439865507
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award for 2011!This book offers an introduction to modern ideas about infinity and their implications for mathematics. It unifies ideas from set theory and mathematical logic, and traces their effects on mainstream mathematical topics of today, such as number theory and combinatorics. The treatment is h
Publisher: CRC Press
ISBN: 1439865507
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 202
Book Description
Winner of a CHOICE Outstanding Academic Title Award for 2011!This book offers an introduction to modern ideas about infinity and their implications for mathematics. It unifies ideas from set theory and mathematical logic, and traces their effects on mainstream mathematical topics of today, such as number theory and combinatorics. The treatment is h
Alice in Puzzle-land
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486482006
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
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.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486482006
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 194
Book Description
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.
The Lady Or the Tiger?
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048647027X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"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.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 048647027X
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 242
Book Description
"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.
Mathematical Logic
Author: Stephen Cole Kleene
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486317072
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Contents include an elementary but thorough overview of mathematical logic of 1st order; formal number theory; surveys of the work by Church, Turing, and others, including Gödel's completeness theorem, Gentzen's theorem, more.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486317072
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 436
Book Description
Contents include an elementary but thorough overview of mathematical logic of 1st order; formal number theory; surveys of the work by Church, Turing, and others, including Gödel's completeness theorem, Gentzen's theorem, more.
The Surprise Attack in Mathematical Problems
Author: Louis A. Graham
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486820769
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
An unusual problem book that focuses on the method of solution, this collection spotlights 52 problems, each with several approaches to situations involving measurement of geometrical spaces, probabilities, distances, relative motion, more.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486820769
Category : Mathematics
Languages : en
Pages : 161
Book Description
An unusual problem book that focuses on the method of solution, this collection spotlights 52 problems, each with several approaches to situations involving measurement of geometrical spaces, probabilities, distances, relative motion, more.
Non-Linear Elastic Deformations
Author: R. W. Ogden
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486318710
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Classic in the field covers application of theory of finite elasticity to solution of boundary-value problems, analysis of mechanical properties of solid materials capable of large elastic deformations. Problems. References.
Publisher: Courier Corporation
ISBN: 0486318710
Category : Technology & Engineering
Languages : en
Pages : 562
Book Description
Classic in the field covers application of theory of finite elasticity to solution of boundary-value problems, analysis of mechanical properties of solid materials capable of large elastic deformations. Problems. References.
Introduction to Special Relativity
Author: James H. Smith
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486808963
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
By the year 1900, most of physics seemed to be encompassed in the two great theories of Newtonian mechanics and Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. Unfortunately, there were inconsistencies between the two theories that seemed irreconcilable. Although many physicists struggled with the problem, it took the genius of Einstein to see that the inconsistencies were concerned not merely with mechanics and electromagnetism, but with our most elementary ideas of space and time. In the special theory of relativity, Einstein resolved these difficulties and profoundly altered our conception of the physical universe. Readers looking for a concise, well-written explanation of one of the most important theories in modern physics need search no further than this lucid undergraduate-level text. Replete with examples that make it especially suitable for self-study, the book assumes only a knowledge of algebra. Topics include classical relativity and the relativity postulate, time dilation, the twin paradox, momentum and energy, particles of zero mass, electric and magnetic fields and forces, and more.
Publisher: Courier Dover Publications
ISBN: 0486808963
Category : Science
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
By the year 1900, most of physics seemed to be encompassed in the two great theories of Newtonian mechanics and Maxwell's theory of electromagnetism. Unfortunately, there were inconsistencies between the two theories that seemed irreconcilable. Although many physicists struggled with the problem, it took the genius of Einstein to see that the inconsistencies were concerned not merely with mechanics and electromagnetism, but with our most elementary ideas of space and time. In the special theory of relativity, Einstein resolved these difficulties and profoundly altered our conception of the physical universe. Readers looking for a concise, well-written explanation of one of the most important theories in modern physics need search no further than this lucid undergraduate-level text. Replete with examples that make it especially suitable for self-study, the book assumes only a knowledge of algebra. Topics include classical relativity and the relativity postulate, time dilation, the twin paradox, momentum and energy, particles of zero mass, electric and magnetic fields and forces, and more.