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Raymond Smullyan To Mock a Mockingbird: and Other Logic Puzzles (Paperback). Author: Raymond Smullyan. Title: To Mock a Mockingbird: and Other Logic Puzzles. Format: Paperback. Condition: New. Publisher: Oxford University Press. Item Weight: 192g. Genre: Science Nature & Math. Further DetailsTitle: To Mock a Mockingbird: and Other Logic Puzzles Condition: New Description: In this entertaining and challenging collection of logic puzzles, Raymond Smullyan -- author of Forever Undecided -- 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 the first part of the book, he transports us once again to that wonderful realm where knights, knaves, twin sisters, quadruplet brothers, gods, demons, and mortals either always tell the truth or always lie, and where truth-seekers are set a variety of fascinating problems. The section culminates in an enchanting and profound metapuzzle in which Inspector Craig of Scotland Yard gets involved in a search for the Fountain of Youth on the Island of Knights and the second part of To Mock a Mockingbird, we accompany the Inspector on a summer-long adventure into the field of combinatory logic (a branch of logic that plays an important role in computer science and artificial intelligence). His adventure, which includes enchanted forests, talking birds, bird sociologists, and a classic quest, provides for us along the way the pleasure of solving puzzles of increasing complexity until we reach the Master Forest and -- thanks to Godel's famous theorem -- the final revelation. Author: Raymond Smullyan EAN: 9780192801425 Format: Paperback Country/Region of Manufacture: GB ISBN: 9780192801425 Item Height: 197mm Item Length: 130mm Item Width: 16mm Language: English ISBN-10: 0192801422 Genre: Science Nature & Math Item Weight: 192g Publisher: Oxford University Press Release Date: 11/09/2000 Topic: Indoor Games & Puzzle Books, Philosophy & Spirituality Release Year: 2000 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
