The magic garden of George B
Subtitle: and other logic puzzles
By: Raymond Smullyan, Indiana University, USA
Publisher: World Scientific
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New Jersey
Language: eng
Number of pages: 170
ISBN-13: 9789814675055; 9789814678551
Subjects: Logic puzzles; Mathematical recreations
Other titles: Logic puzzles
Description: "The author presents a bombshell puzzle so startling that it seems inscredible that there could be any solution at all! But there is indeed a solution - moreover, one that requires a chain of lesser puzzles to be solved first. The reader is thus taken on a journey through a maze of subsidiary problems that has all the earmarks of an entertaining detective story. This book leads the unwary reader into deep logical waters through seductively entertaining logic puzzles"--Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: It's all a question of logic : puzzles or monkey tricks; title: Which lady; title: Which witch; title: Which island; title: McGregor's arithmetic tricks; title: Ask Eldon White; title: Al, the chemist; title: Sane or mad; title: The strange case of McSnurd; title: The knight-knave disease; title: Human or android; title: Variable lying and paradox; title: The magic garden : George's garden; title: Some neighboring gardens; title: The grand problem solved!; title: Boolean gardens and variable liars; title: Propositional logic and Boolean gardens; title: The Boolean theory of sets; title: Boolean algebras in general; title: Boolean gardens revisited; title: Another grand problem; title: George Boole and mathematical logic.