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The Lady or the Tiger?: and Other Logic Puzzles

Name: The Lady or the Tiger?: and Other Logic Puzzles
Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
ISBN: 9780486470276

by Raymond M. Smullyan

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Overview

"Another scintillating collection of brilliant problems and paradoxes by the most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived." — Martin Gardner. Inspired by the classic tale of a prisoner's dilemma, these whimsically themed challenges involve paradoxes about probability, time, and change; metapuzzles; and self-referentiality. Nineteen chapters advance in difficulty from relatively simple to highly complex.

Synopsis

Created by a renowned puzzle master, these whimsically themed challenges involve paradoxes about probability, time, and change; metapuzzles; and self-referentiality. Nineteen chapters advance in difficulty from relatively simple to highly complex. 1982 edition.