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by Raymond M. Smullyan
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ISBN: 048647027X Dover Publications Price: $10.95 |
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"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.
Reprint of the Times Books, New York, 1982 edition.
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Table of Contents for The Lady or the Tiger?: and Other Logic Puzzles
PART I. THE LADY OR THE TIGER? Chestnuts--Old and New Ladies or Tigers? The Asylum of Doctor Tarr and Professor Fether Inspector Craig Visits Transylvania PART II. PUZZLES AND METAPUZZLES The Island of Questioners The Isle of Dreams Metapuzzles PART III. THE MYSTERY OF THE MONTE CARLO LOCK The Mystery of the Monte Carlo Lock A Curious Number Machine Craig's Law Fergusson's Laws Interlude: Let's Generalize! The Key PART IV. SOLVABLE OR UNSOLVABLE? Fergusson's Logic Machine Provability and Truth Machines That Talk About Themselves Mortal and Immortal Numbers The Machine That Never Got Built Leibniz's Dream About the Author