Raymond M. Smullyan Forfatter
Visning: Type : Alle | Sprog : Alle | Format : Alle
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Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes: Fifty Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Fifty elegant, witty problems involve deducing events in a game's past. Holmes instructs Watson in the intricacies of retrograde analysis in a series of increasingly complex mysteries. Readers need only know how chess pieces move.
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The Godelian Puzzle Book: Puzzles, Paradoxes and Proofs (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
These logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Gödel's incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and other concepts. No background in formal logic necessary.
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Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
Characters from Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass populate these 88 puzzles involving word play, logic and metalogic, and philosophical paradoxes. The charmingly illustrated challenges range from easy to difficult and include solutions.
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What is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles (Bog, Paperback / softback, Engelsk)
A celebrated mathematician presents more than 200 increasingly complex problems that delve into Gödel’s undecidability theorem and other examples of the deepest paradoxes of logic and set theory. Solutions.
Levering: 6 - 9 hverdage
