Riddle Of Scheherazade
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The Riddle Of Scheherazade
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Author : Raymond Smullyan
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-08-22
The Riddle Of Scheherazade written by Raymond Smullyan and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-08-22 with Games & Activities categories.
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
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Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
language : en
Publisher: Random House Value Pub
Release Date : 1999-05-01
Riddle Of Scheherazade written by Raymond M. Smullyan and has been published by Random House Value Pub this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-05-01 with Games categories.
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.
Four Lives
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Author : Jason Rosenhouse
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2014-02-20
Four Lives written by Jason Rosenhouse and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2014-02-20 with Mathematics categories.
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.
The Lady Or The Tiger
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Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
language : en
Publisher: Courier Corporation
Release Date : 2009-01-01
The Lady Or The Tiger written by Raymond M. Smullyan and has been published by Courier Corporation this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-01-01 with Science categories.
"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.
Satan Cantor And Infinity And Other Mind Bogglin
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Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
language : en
Publisher: Knopf
Release Date : 2012-05-30
Satan Cantor And Infinity And Other Mind Bogglin written by Raymond M. Smullyan and has been published by Knopf this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-05-30 with Games & Activities categories.
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 Puzzle Instinct
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Author : Marcel Danesi
language : en
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Release Date : 2004-02-20
The Puzzle Instinct written by Marcel Danesi and has been published by Indiana University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-02-20 with Games & Activities categories.
"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
The Monty Hall Problem
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Author : Jason Rosenhouse
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Release Date : 2009-06-04
The Monty Hall Problem written by Jason Rosenhouse and has been published by Oxford University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2009-06-04 with Mathematics categories.
Mathematicians call it the Monty Hall Problem, and it is one of the most interesting mathematical brain teasers of recent times. Imagine that you face three doors, behind one of which is a prize. You choose one but do not open it. The host--call him Monty Hall--opens a different door, always choosing one he knows to be empty. Left with two doors, will you do better by sticking with your first choice, or by switching to the other remaining door? In this light-hearted yet ultimately serious book, Jason Rosenhouse explores the history of this fascinating puzzle. Using a minimum of mathematics (and none at all for much of the book), he shows how the problem has fascinated philosophers, psychologists, and many others, and examines the many variations that have appeared over the years. As Rosenhouse demonstrates, the Monty Hall Problem illuminates fundamental mathematical issues and has abiding philosophical implications. Perhaps most important, he writes, the problem opens a window on our cognitive difficulties in reasoning about uncertainty.
To Mock A Mockingbird
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Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Release Date : 2000
To Mock A Mockingbird written by Raymond M. Smullyan and has been published by Oxford University Press, USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2000 with Games & Activities categories.
The author of Forever Undecided, Raymond Smullyan continues to delight and astonish us with his gift for making available, in the thoroughly pleasurable form of puzzles, some of the most important mathematical thinking of our time.
The Magic Garden Of George B And Other Logic Puzzles
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Author : Raymond Smullyan
language : en
Publisher: Polimetrica s.a.s.
Release Date : 2007
The Magic Garden Of George B And Other Logic Puzzles written by Raymond Smullyan and has been published by Polimetrica s.a.s. this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2007 with Mathematics categories.
An Anthropology Of Puzzles
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Author : Marcel Danesi
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2020-05-15
An Anthropology Of Puzzles written by Marcel Danesi and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-05-15 with Social Science categories.
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.