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Informationen zum Autor Raymond Smullyan, a well-known mathematician and logician and the author of many books, is Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University and Professor Emeritus of the City University of New York-Lehman College and Graduate Center. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Part I - Logic Puzzles 1: The Prize and Other Puzzles 2: The Absentminded Logician 3: The Barber of Seville 4: The Mystery of the Photograph Part II - Knights, Knaves, and the Fountain of Youth 5: Some Unusual Knights and Knaves 6: Day-Knights and Night Knights 7: Gods, Demons, and Mortals 8: In Search of the Fountain of Youth Part III - To Mock a Mockingbird 9: To Mock a Mockingbird 10: s There a Sage Bird 11: Birds Galore 12: Mockingbirds, Warblers, and Starlings 13: A Gallery of Sage Birds Part IV - Singing Birds 14: Curry's Lively Bird Forest 15: Russell's Forrest 16: The Forest Without a Name 17: Godel's Forest Part V - The Master Forest 18: The Master Forest 19: Aristocratic Birds 20: Craig's Discovery Part VI - The Grand Question 21: The Fixed Point Principle 22: A Glimpse into Infinity 23: Logical Birds 24: Birds That Can Do Arithmetic 25: Is There an Ideal Bird Epilogue Who's Who Among the Birds
