To Mock a Mocking Bird: Including an Amazing Adventure in

To Mock a Mocking Bird: Including an Amazing Adventure in Combinatory Logic

In this entertaining and challenging new collection of logic puzzles, Raymond Smullyanâ€”author of What Is the Name of This Book? And The Lady or the Tiger?â€”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.

In the first part of the book, he transports us once again to that wonderful realm where knights, knaves, twin sisters, quadruplet brothers, gods, demons, and mortals either always tell the truth or always lie, and where truth-seekers are set a variety of fascinating problems. The section culminates in an enchanting and profound metapuzzle (a puzzle about a puzzle), in which Inspector Craig of Scotland Yard gets involved in a search of the Fountain of Youth on the Island of Knights and Knaves.

In the second and larger section, we accompany the Inspector on a summer-long adventure into the field of combinatory logic (a branch of logic that plays an important role in computer science and artificial intelligence). His adventure, which includes enchanted forests, talking birds, bird sociologists, and a classic quest, provides for us along the way the pleasure of solving puzzles of increasing complexity until we reach the Master Forest andâ€”thanks to GÃ¶delâ€™s famous theoremâ€”the final revelation.
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To Mock a Mockingbird will delight all puzzle loversâ€”the curious neophytes as well as the serious students of logic, mathematics, or computer science.
Country USA
Manufacturer Knopf
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-06-27
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	Knopf
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-06-27
Format	Kindle eBook

To Mock a Mocking Bird: Including an Amazing Adventure in Combinatory Logic

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