Games for Your Mind : : The History and Future of Logic Puzzles /

Games for Your Mind : : The History and Future of Logic Puzzles / / Jason Rosenhouse.

A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in recreation, mathematics, and philosophyLogic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since. Games like Sudoku and Mastermind are fun and engrossing recreationa...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2020 English
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Rosenhouse, Jason,
Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2020]
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Year of Publication:2020
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (352 p.) :; 35 b/w illus. 32 tables.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • I. The Pain and Pleasure of Logic
  • 1. Is Logic Boring and Pointless?
  • 2. Logic Just for Fun
  • II. Lewis Carroll and Aristotelian Logic
  • 3. Aristotle's Syllogistic
  • 4. The Empuzzlement of Aristotelian Logic
  • 5. Sorites Puzzles
  • 6. Carroll's Contributions to Mind
  • III. Raymond Smullyan and Mathematical Logic
  • 7. Liars and Truthtellers
  • 8. From Aristotle to Russell
  • 9. Formal Systems in Life and Math
  • 10. The Empuzzlement of Gödel's Theorems
  • 11. Question Puzzles
  • IV. Puzzles Based on Nonclassical Logics
  • 12. Should "Logics" Be a Word?
  • 13. Many-Valued Knights and Knaves
  • V. Miscellaneous Topics
  • 14. The Saga of the Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever
  • 15. Metapuzzles
  • 16. Paradoxes
  • 17. A Guide to Some Literary Logic Puzzles
  • Glossary
  • References
  • Index

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