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
