Full name: The Riddle of Scheherazade: and Other Amazing Puzzles

Author: Raymond Smullyan Year: 1997 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Barns&Noble Goodreads Amazon Google Books LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780156006064 9780679446347 0156006065 0679446346

In his new book, Raymond Smullyan, grand vizier of the logic puzzle, joins Scheherazade, a charming young woman of '€œfantastic logical ingenuity,'€ to give us 1001 hours of brain-teasing fun. Scheherazade, we find, has gotten back into hot water with the king, and is once more in danger of losing her head at down. But, thinking quickly, she tempts the king to stay her execution by posing him the most delightfully devious mathematical and logic puzzle ever invented. They keep him guessing for many more nights until the fatal hour has passed, and she keeps her head. The Riddle of Scheherazade includes several wonderful old chestnuts and many fiendishly original puzzles, 225 in all. There are logic tricks and number games, metapuzzles (puzzles about puzzles), liar/truth-teller exercises, Gödelian brian twisters, baffling paradoxes, and an excursion, under Scheherazade'€™s expert guidance, into an amusing new field invented by Smullyan, called '€œcoercive'€ logic, in which the answer to a problem can actually change the fate of the puzzler! An absolute must for all puzzle fans'€”from the middle-school whiz to the sophisticated mathematician or computer scientist. Similar books: To Mock a Mockingbird by Raymond Smullyan This Book Needs No Title by Raymond Smullyan 5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies by Raymond Smullyan Who Knows? by Raymond Smullyan The Lady or the Tiger? And Other Logic Puzzles Including a Mathematical Novel That Features Godel's Great Discovery by Raymond Smullyan Satan, Cantor, and Infinity by Raymond Smullyan Alice in Puzzle-Land by Raymond Smullyan Forever Undecided by Raymond Smullyan What is the Name of this Book? by Raymond Smullyan 101 Puzzles in Thought and Logic by C. R. Wylie Jr. The Colossal Book of Short Puzzles and Problems by Martin Gardner Aha! Gotcha by Martin Gardner The Moscow Puzzles by Boris A. Kordemsky On Formally Undecidable Propositions of Principia Mathematica and Related Systems by Kurt Godel My Best Mathematical & Logic Puzzles by Martin Gardner The Unexpected Hanging and Other Mathematical Diversions by Martin Gardner Puzzles and Paradoxes by T. H. O'Beirne Geometric Puzzle Design by Stewart T. Coffin