Satan, Cantor, And Infinity and Other Mind-Boggling Puzzles

Raymond M. Smullyan 

 Knopf | 1992 | 284 páginas | rar - epub | 2,1 Mb

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The author of What Is the Name of This Book? presents a compilation of more than two hundred challenging new logic puzzles--ranging from simple brainteasers to complex mathematical paradoxes

Contents
PART I • LOGICAL SORCERY
  1   The Lie Detective
  2   When I Was a Boy
  3   The Abduction of Annabelle
  4   How Kazir Won His Wife
  5   A Plague of Lies
  6   On the Other Hand
  7   The Island of Partial Silence
PART II • PUZZLES AND METAPUZZLES
 8   Memories of the Sorcerer’s Uncle
 9   The Planet Og
10   Metapuzzles
PART III • SELF-REPRODUCING ROBOTS
11   The Island of Robots
12   The Quaint System of Professor Quincy
13   From the Ridiculous to the Simple
PART IV • GÖDELIAN PUZZLES
14   Self-Reference and Cross-Reference
15   The Sorcerer’s Miniature Gödelian Language
PART V • HOW CAN THESE THINGS BE?
16   Something to Think About!
17   Of Time and Change
PART VI • A JOURNEY INTO INFINITY
18   What Is Infinity?
19   Cantor’s Fundamental Discovery
20   But Some Paradoxes Arise!
21   Resolutions
22   The Continuum Problem
PART VII • HYPERGAME, PARADOXES, AND A STORY
23   Hypergame
24   Paradoxical?

25   Satan, Cantor, and Infinity