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Logic puzzles.
Logic puzzles -- History.
Mathematical recreations.
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Rosenhouse, Jason.
Logic puzzles.
Logic puzzles -- History.
Mathematical recreations.
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Games for your mind : the
history
and
future
of
logic
puzzles
/ Jason Rosenhouse.
by
Rosenhouse, Jason.
Princeton University Press, 2020.
Call #:
793.73 R8131g
Subjects
Logic
puzzles
.
Logic
puzzles
--
History
.
Mathematical recreations.
ISBN:
9780691174075 (hc)
Alternate title:
History
and
future
of
logic
puzzles
Description:
xiv, 333 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references (p. [319]-326) and index.
Contents:
I. The Pain and Pleasure of
Logic
-- 1. Is
Logic
Boring and Pointless? -- 2.
Logic
Just for Fun -- II. Lewis Carroll and Aristotelian
Logic
-- 3. Aristotle's Syllogistic -- 4. The Empuzzlement of Aristotelian
Logic
-- 5. Sorites
Puzzles
-- 6. Carroll's Contributions to Mind -- III. Raymond Smullyan and Mathematical
Logic
-- 7. Liars and Truthtellers -- 8. From Aristotle to Russell -- 9. Formal Systems in Life and Math -- 10. The Empuzzlement of Gödel's Theorems -- 11. Question
Puzzles
-- IV.
Puzzles
Based on Nonclassical Logics -- 12. Should "Logics" Be a Word? -- 13. Many-Valued Knights and Knaves -- V. Miscellaneous Topics -- 14. The Saga of the Hardest
Logic
Puzzle Ever -- 15. Metapuzzles -- 16. Paradoxes -- 17. A Guide to Some Literary
Logic
Puzzles
.
Summary:
"
Logic
puzzles
were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since. Games like Sudoku and Mastermind are fun and engrossing recreational activities, but they also share deep foundations in mathematical
logic
and are worthy of serious intellectual inquiry. Games for Your Mind explores the
history
and
future
of
logic
puzzles
while enabling you to test your skill against a variety of
puzzles
yourself. Jason Rosenhouse begins by introducing readers to
logic
and
logic
puzzles
and goes on to reveal the rich
history
of these
puzzles
. He shows how Carroll's
puzzles
presented Aristotelian
logic
as a game for children, yet also informed his scholarly work on
logic
. He reveals how another pioneer of
logic
puzzles
, Raymond Smullyan, drew on classic
puzzles
about liars and truthtellers to illustrate Kurt G©œdel's theorems and illuminate profound questions in mathematical
logic
. Rosenhouse then presents a new vision for the
future
of
logic
puzzles
based on nonclassical
logic
, which is used today in computer science and automated reasoning to manipulate large and sometimes contradictory sets of data. Featuring a wealth of sample
puzzles
ranging from simple to extremely challenging, this lively and engaging book brings together many of the most ingenious
puzzles
ever devised, including the 'Hardest
Logic
Puzzle Ever,' metapuzzles, paradoxes, and the
logic
puzzles
in detective stories."--Publisher.
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