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Who Knows?: A Study of Religious Consciousness

Raymond M. Smullyan

Invites reader to explore some beautiful and some horrible ideas related to religious and mystical thought. This book focuses on the doctrine of Hell and its justification, presenting arguments on…

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Theory of Formal Systems

Raymond M. Smullyan

This book serves both as a completely self-contained introduction and as an exposition of new results in the field of recursive function theory and its application to formal systems.

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Diagonalization and Self-reference

Raymond M. Smullyan

This volume’s purpose is to present a unified treatment of fixed points as they occur in Godel’s incompleteness proofs, recursion theory, combinatory logic, semantics and metamathematics. It provides a survey…

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The Riddle of Schenerazade

Raymond M. Smullyan

A collection of more than two hundred mindbending puzzles demystifies Scheherazade and the Arabian Nights enigmas and includes logic tricks, number games, true/false paradoxes, and logic puzzles.

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The Lady or the Tiger?: And Other Logic Puzzles

Raymond M Smullyan

Created by a renowned puzzle master, 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…

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Satan, Cantor & Infinity: Mind-Boggling Puzzles

Raymond M Smullyan

A renowned mathematician tells stories of knights and knaves in an entertaining look at the logical precepts behind infinity, probability, time, and change. Requires a strong background in mathematics. Complete…

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King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles

Raymond M. Smullyan

This fanciful, original collection for readers of all ages features arithmetic puzzles, logic problems related to crime detection, and logic and arithmetic puzzles involving King Arthur and his Dogs of…

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What is the Name of This Book?: The Riddle of Dracula and Other Logical Puzzles

Raymond M. Smullyan

A celebrated mathematician presents more than 200 increasingly complex problems that delve into Godel’s undecidability theorem and other examples of the deepest paradoxes of logic and set theory. Solutions.

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Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes: Fifty Tantalizing Problems of Chess Detection

Raymond M. Smullyan

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…

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First-order Logic

Raymond M. Smullyan

This self-contained study is both an introduction to quantification theory and an exposition of new results and techniques in analytic or cut free methods. The focus is on the tableau…

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Reflections: The Magic, Music And Mathematics Of Raymond Smullyan

Raymond M Smullyan (Indiana Univ, Usa)

This is an exciting if not rambling account of events of Raymond Smullyan’s four lives - as a mathematical logician, musician, magician, and author - together with thoughts that come…

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Reflections: The Magic, Music And Mathematics Of Raymond Smullyan

Raymond M Smullyan (Indiana Univ, Usa)

This is an exciting if not rambling account of events of Raymond Smullyan’s four lives - as a mathematical logician, musician, magician, and author - together with thoughts that come…

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Magic Garden Of George B And Other Logic Puzzles, The

Raymond M Smullyan (Indiana Univ, Usa)

The author presents a bombshell puzzle so startling that it seems incredible that there could be any solution at all!

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Magic Garden Of George B And Other Logic Puzzles, The

Raymond M Smullyan (Indiana Univ, Usa)

The author presents a bombshell puzzle so startling that it seems incredible that there could be any solution at all!

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Beginner’s Further Guide To Mathematical Logic, A

Raymond M Smullyan (Indiana Univ, Usa)

‘A wealth of examples to which solutions are given permeate the text so the reader will certainly be active.'The Mathematical GazetteThis is the final book written by the late great…

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Beginner’s Further Guide To Mathematical Logic, A

Raymond M Smullyan (Indiana Univ, Usa)

‘A wealth of examples to which solutions are given permeate the text so the reader will certainly be active.'The Mathematical GazetteThis is the final book written by the late great…

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This Book Needs No Title

Raymond M Smullyan

This Book Needs No Title brings the delight and fascination with self-reference and paradox that distinguish Raymond Smullyan's popular books on logic to bear on philosophical and spiritual themes. Progressing…

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Set Theory and the Continuum Problem

Raymond M Smullyan,Melvin Fitting

A lucid, elegant, and complete survey of set theory, this three-part treatment explores axiomatic set theory, the consistency of the continuum hypothesis, and forcing and independence results. 1996 edition.

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Recursion Theory for Metamathematics

Raymond M. Smullyan (Professor of Philosophy, Professor of Philosophy, Indiana University)

This volume of the Oxford Logic Guides is a sequel to Smullyan’s Godel’s Incompleteness Theorems (Oxford Logic Guides No. 19, 1992).

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Goedel’s Incompleteness Theorems

Raymond M. Smullyan (Professor, City College, Professor, City College, City University of New York)

In this introductory volume, Raymond Smullyan guides the reader through the world of Godel’s incompleteness theorems.

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The Mathematics of Various Entertaining Subjects: Research in Recreational Math

The history of mathematics is filled with major breakthroughs resulting from solutions to recreational problems. Problems of interest to gamblers led to the modern theory of probability, for example, and…

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Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty

Raymond M. Smullyan

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…

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