Author: Lewis Carroll Publisher: Read Books Ltd ISBN: 144748066X Category : Philosophy Languages : en Pages : 331
Book Description
Lewis Carroll the author of the world famous Alice in Wonderland is well known even today for his fiction, but his tenure as professor of mathematics at Oxford university is less well known as is his love of logic problems. Carroll was a mathematician at heart; he deeply loved and was fascinated by the subject. At first it may seem odd that a creator of such nonsensical writings would have such an interest in this area, although the logic involved in maths appealed to the very clever mind of Dodgson, and logical oddities are at the root of a lot of the wit in the Alice books.
Author: Jason Rosenhouse Publisher: Princeton University Press ISBN: 0691200343 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 348
Book Description
A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in mathematics, philosophy, and recreation Logic 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 recreational activities, but they also share deep foundations in mathematical logic and are worthy of serious intellectual inquiry. Games for Your Mind explores the history and future of logic puzzles while enabling you to test your skill against a variety of puzzles yourself. In this informative and entertaining book, Jason Rosenhouse begins by introducing readers to logic and logic puzzles and goes on to reveal the rich history of these puzzles. He shows how Carroll's puzzles presented Aristotelian logic as a game for children, yet also informed his scholarly work on logic. He reveals how another pioneer of logic puzzles, Raymond Smullyan, drew on classic puzzles about liars and truthtellers to illustrate Kurt Gödel's theorems and illuminate profound questions in mathematical logic. Rosenhouse then presents a new vision for the future of logic puzzles based on nonclassical logic, which is used today in computer science and automated reasoning to manipulate large and sometimes contradictory sets of data. Featuring a wealth of sample puzzles ranging from simple to extremely challenging, this lively and engaging book brings together many of the most ingenious puzzles ever devised, including the "Hardest Logic Puzzle Ever," metapuzzles, paradoxes, and the logic puzzles in detective stories.
Author: Allen L. Mann Publisher: Cambridge University Press ISBN: 1139495917 Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 215
Book Description
Bringing together over twenty years of research, this book gives a complete overview of independence-friendly logic, an exciting logical formalism at the interface of logic and game theory. It is suitable for graduate students and advanced undergraduates who have taken a course on first-order logic.
Author: Rudolf Carnap Publisher: Courier Corporation ISBN: 048614349X Category : Mathematics Languages : en Pages : 280
Book Description
Clear, comprehensive, and rigorous treatment develops the subject from elementary concepts to the construction and analysis of relatively complex logical languages. Hundreds of problems, examples, and exercises. 1958 edition.
Author: Lewis Carroll
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Author: Lewis Carroll
Author: Lewis Carroll
Author: Jason Rosenhouse
Author: Lewis Carroll
Author: Lewis Carroll
Author: Lewis Carroll
Author: Allen L. Mann
Author: Rudolf Carnap