To Mock a Mockingbird: and Other Logic Puzzles
And Other Logic Puzzles
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Product details:
- Edition number New ed
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 9 November 2000
- ISBN 9780192801425
- Binding Paperback
- No. of pages256 pages
- Size 197x130x16 mm
- Weight 192 g
- Language English 40
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Short 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 time.
MoreLong 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 time.
In 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 Knaves.
In 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.
Table of Contents:
Part I - Logic Puzzles
The Prize and Other Puzzles
The Absentminded Logician
The Barber of Seville
The Mystery of the Photograph
Part II - Knights, Knaves, and the Fountain of Youth
Some Unusual Knights and Knaves
Day-Knights and Night Knights
Gods, Demons, and Mortals
In Search of the Fountain of Youth
Part III - To Mock a Mockingbird
To Mock a Mockingbird
s There a Sage Bird
Birds Galore
Mockingbirds, Warblers, and Starlings
A Gallery of Sage Birds
Part IV - Singing Birds
Curry's Lively Bird Forest
Russell's Forrest
The Forest Without a Name
Godel's Forest
Part V - The Master Forest
The Master Forest
Aristocratic Birds
Craig's Discovery
Part VI - The Grand Question
The Fixed Point Principle
A Glimpse into Infinity
Logical Birds
Birds That Can Do Arithmetic
Is There an Ideal Bird
Epilogue
Who's Who Among the Birds
