Alice in Puzzle-Land A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty
by Smullyan, Raymond M.; Gardner, Martin; Fitting, GreerEdition: Reprint
Format: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2011-12-08
Publisher(s): Dover Publications
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Summary
Characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderlandand Through the Looking-Glasspopulate 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, include solutions, and feature 60 charming illustrations. "An ingenious book." -- Boston Globe.
Author Biography
Raymond Smullyan received his PhD from Princeton University and has taught at Dartmouth, Princeton, Indiana University, and New York's Lehman College. Best known for his mathematical and creative logic puzzles and games, he is also a concert pianist and a magician.
Raymond Smullyan: The Merry Prankster
Raymond Smullyan (1919– ), mathematician, logician, magician, creator of extraordinary puzzles, philosopher, pianist, and man of many parts. The first Dover book by Raymond Smullyan was First-Order Logic (1995). Recent years have brought a number of his magical books of logic and math puzzles: The Lady or the Tiger (2009); Satan, Cantor and Infinity (2009); an original, never-before-published collection, King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles (2010); and Set Theory and the Continuum Problem (with Melvin Fitting, also reprinted by Dover in 2010). More will be coming in subsequent years.
In the Author's Own Words:
"Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini."
"Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements: they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong.'" — Raymond Smullyan
Critical Acclaim for The Lady or the Tiger:
"Another scintillating collection of brilliant problems and paradoxes by the most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived." — Martin Gardner
Table of Contents
Preface
Introduction
Part I-Wonderland Puzzles
1. Which Alice?
2. Who Stole The Tarts?
3. Who Is Mad?
4. The Gryphon And The Mock Turtle
5. The King's Story
Part II-Looking-Glass Logic
6. The Twelfth Question
7. Tweedledum or Tweedledee?
8. And That's The Beautiful Part Of It!
9. The White Knight Couldn't Quite Remember
10. Looking-Glass Logic
11. The Red King's Theory
12. Which Alice?
Solutions to the Puzzles
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