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Four Lives

A Celebration of Raymond Smullyan

Four Lives( )
Author: Rosenhouse, Jason
Smullyan, Raymond
ISBN:978-0-486-49067-0
Publication Date:Mar 2014
Publisher:Dover Publications, Incorporated
Book Format:Hardback
List Price:USD $24.95
Book Description:

This "best of" hardcover collection of works by Raymond Smullyan features logic puzzles, musings on mathematical logic and paradoxes, chess problems, and thoughts on the philosophy of religion, plus personal tributes to the author.

Book Details
Pages:352
Detailed Subjects: Mathematics / Recreations & Games
Games & Activities / Logic & Brain Teasers
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):6 x 9 Inches
Book Weight:1.525 Pounds
Author Biography
Rosenhouse, Jason (Author)
Raymond Merrill Smullyan was born in Far Rockaway, Queens, New York on May 25, 1919. He received a bachelor's degree in mathematics from the University of Chicago and a Ph.D. from Princeton University. He taught at Princeton, Yeshiva University, Lehman College of the City University of New York, and Indiana University. He also performed magic under the stage name Five-Ace Merrill at nightclubs like the Pump Room in Chicago.

He was a puzzle-creating logician who wrote many books including The Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Knights, The Lady or the Tiger?: And Other Logic Puzzles, Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children, and The Magic Garden of George B and Other Logic Puzzles. He died on February 6, 2017 at the age of 97.

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