Satan Cantor Infinity

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Knopf
ISBN 13 : 0307819825
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.26/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Satan, Cantor, And Infinity And Other Mind-bogglin written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Knopf. This book was released on 2012-05-30 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: More than two hundred new and challenging logic puzzles—the simplest brainteaser to the most complex paradoxes in contemporary mathematical thinking—from our topmost puzzlemaster (“the most entertaining logician who ever lived,” Martin Gardner has called him). Our guide to the puzzles is the Sorcerer, who resides on the Island of Knights and Knaves, where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie, and he introduces us to the amazing magic—logic—that enables to discover which inhabitants are which. Then, in a picaresque adventure in logic, he takes us to the planet Og, to the Island of Partial Silence, and to a land where metallic robots wearing strings of capital letters are noisily duplicating and dismantling themselves and others. The reader’s job is to figure out how it all works. Finally, we accompany the Sorcerer on an alluring tour of Infinity which includes George Cantor’s amazing mathematical insights. The tour (and the book) ends with Satan devising a diabolical puzzle for one of Cantor’s prize students—who outwits him! In sum: a devilish magician’s cornucopia of puzzles—a delight for every age and level of ability.

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Alfred a Knopf Incorporated
ISBN 13 : 9780679406884
Total Pages : 270 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Satan, Cantor, and Infinity written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Alfred a Knopf Incorporated. This book was released on 1992 with total page 270 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The author of What Is the Name of This Book? presents a compilation of more than two hundred challenging new logic puzzles--ranging from simple brainteasers to complex mathematical paradoxes.

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780517118009
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Satan, Cantor and Infinity written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by . This book was released on 1994-06-01 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Author : Steven G. Krantz
Publisher : MAA
ISBN 13 : 0883857669
Total Pages : 395 pages
Book Rating : 4.63/5 ( download)

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Download or read book An Episodic History of Mathematics written by Steven G. Krantz and published by MAA. This book was released on 2010-04 with total page 395 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A series of snapshots of the history of mathematics from ancient times to the twentieth century.

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486315770
Total Pages : 240 pages
Book Rating : 4.75/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Gödelian Puzzle Book written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2013-08-21 with total page 240 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: These logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Gödel's incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and other concepts. No background in formal logic necessary.

Author : Sean Monroe
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
ISBN 13 : 146535042X
Total Pages : 147 pages
Book Rating : 4.28/5 ( download)

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Download or read book But Why? written by Sean Monroe and published by Xlibris Corporation. This book was released on 2011-10-20 with total page 147 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Have you ever wondered why we do certain things in mathematics? Why do we count decimal points when multiplying with decimals or why do we ?invert and multiply? when multiplying with fractions? Or, were you frustrated when you asked for a reason why we convert mixed numbers to improper fractions that way, and the teacher simply said, ?That is the way I learned how.?? This book attempts to answer these questions along with dozens more. If you have ever wondered why we do something in mathematics, this is the book for you. Here are a few of the mysteries that are ?unraveled? in this book: What can?t we divide by zero? Why do we move the decimal point when dividing by a decimal? Why is a ?negative times a negative a positive?? Why is any number raised to the zero power equal to zero?

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486482006
Total Pages : 194 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Alice in Puzzle-land written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2011 with total page 194 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass populate these 88 intriguing puzzles. Mathematician Raymond Smullyan re-creates the spirit of Lewis Carroll's writings in puzzles involving word play, logic and metalogic, and philosophical paradoxes. Challenges range from easy to difficult and include solutions, plus 60 charming illustrations. "An ingenious book." — Boston Globe.

Author : N.Ya. Vilenkin
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN 13 : 1461208378
Total Pages : 151 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book In Search of Infinity written by N.Ya. Vilenkin and published by Springer Science & Business Media. This book was released on 2013-06-29 with total page 151 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The concept of infinity is one of the most important, and at the same time, one of the most mysterious concepts of science. Already in antiquity many philosophers and mathematicians pondered over its contradictory nature. In mathematics, the contradictions connected with infinity intensified after the creation, at the end of the 19th century, of the theory of infinite sets and the subsequent discovery, soon after, of paradoxes in this theory. At the time, many scientists ignored the paradoxes and used set theory extensively in their work, while others subjected set-theoretic methods in mathematics to harsh criticism. The debate intensified when a group of French mathematicians, who wrote under the pseudonym of Nicolas Bourbaki, tried to erect the whole edifice of mathematics on the single notion of a set. Some mathematicians greeted this attempt enthusiastically while others regarded it as an unnecessary formalization, an attempt to tear mathematics away from life-giving practical applications that sustain it. These differences notwithstanding, Bourbaki has had a significant influence on the evolution of mathematics in the twentieth century. In this book we try to tell the reader how the idea of the infinite arose and developed in physics and in mathematics, how the theory of infinite sets was constructed, what paradoxes it has led to, what significant efforts have been made to eliminate the resulting contradictions, and what routes scientists are trying to find that would provide a way out of the many difficulties.

Author : Amir D. Aczel
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
ISBN 13 : 0743422996
Total Pages : 278 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Mystery of the Aleph written by Amir D. Aczel and published by Simon and Schuster. This book was released on 2001-08-28 with total page 278 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A compelling narrative that blends the story of infinity with the tragic tale of a tormented and brilliant mathematician.

Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
ISBN 13 : 0486782972
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.73/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Beginner's Guide to Mathematical Logic written by Raymond M. Smullyan and published by Courier Corporation. This book was released on 2014-03-19 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Combining stories of great writers and philosophers with quotations and riddles, this completely original text for first courses in mathematical logic examines problems related to proofs, propositional logic and first-order logic, undecidability, and other topics. 2013 edition.