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Some Interesting Memories

A Paradoxical Life

160 Seiten, kartoniert, Thinkers' Press, 1. Auflage 2002

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"Can a lady be kissed without being touched?"

Raymond Smullyan has been providing the world with such puzzle fun, chess problems, and logic quizzes for a long time. Now, he reviews his life and how all of this got started in a way that is just as interesting as his previous entertainments.
Not surprisingly, there are more puzzles, but there are also new stories, many photos, and a look inside the many hobbies of the "unique set of personalities that includes a philosopher, logician, mathematician, musician, magician, humorist, writer, and maker of marvelous puzzles" as Martin Gardner recalls, a former editor of the Scientific American. Some Interesting Memories is a "rambly" account taking you inside university life, meeting musicians, mathematicians, and magicians, then, off to Eastern philosophy, making stereoscopic viewers, or installing a 40-speaker sound system.
However, "playful" is a very important part of Smullyan's lifestyle as he takes you through practical jokes, April Fools' Day, and delightful as well as sometimes corny jokes about computers, philosophers, and theatrical dialogues.
Replete with reminiscences from the Marvin Minksy's, Anatol Holt, Robert Cowen, Douglas Hofstadter, and the insights of others, you will be taken on a travelogue of persons, places, and things which go where they will.
Chess players around the world will now know how his "retrograde analyses" came to be, resulting in the famous Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, a tribute to logic, induction, and the power of thinking.
"Can a lady be kissed without being touched?"

Raymond Smullyan has been providing the world with such puzzle fun, chess problems, and logic quizzes for a long time. Now, he reviews his life and how all of this got started in a way that is just as interesting as his previous entertainments.
Not surprisingly, there are more puzzles, but there are also new stories, many photos, and a look inside the many hobbies of the "unique set of personalities that includes a philosopher, logician, mathematician, musician, magician, humorist, writer, and maker of marvelous puzzles" as Martin Gardner recalls, a former editor of the Scientific American. Some Interesting Memories is a "rambly" account taking you inside university life, meeting musicians, mathematicians, and magicians, then, off to Eastern philosophy, making stereoscopic viewers, or installing a 40-speaker sound system.
However, "playful" is a very important part of Smullyan's lifestyle as he takes you through practical jokes, April Fools' Day, and delightful as well as sometimes corny jokes about computers, philosophers, and theatrical dialogues.
Replete with reminiscences from the Marvin Minksy's, Anatol Holt, Robert Cowen, Douglas Hofstadter, and the insights of others, you will be taken on a travelogue of persons, places, and things which go where they will.
Chess players around the world will now know how his "retrograde analyses" came to be, resulting in the famous Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, a tribute to logic, induction, and the power of thinking.

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EAN 1888710101
Gewicht 200 g
Hersteller Thinkers' Press
Breite 13,9 cm
Höhe 21,6 cm
Medium Buch
Erscheinungsjahr 2002
Autor Raymond Smullyan
Sprache Englisch
Auflage 1
ISBN-10 1888710101
Seiten 160
Einband kartoniert
005 Part I
006 Here Come Some Jokes
010 Early Life and Music
017 The Fair Sex
017 Logic Puzzles
019 New York
022 Highschool Days Continued
024 Retrograde Analysis and Other Chess Topics
027 More on Logic Puzzles
029 Mathematics
031 Truth Tables and Acting
035 Logical Positivism
036 Symbolic Logic and Theses
037 Modesty
040 Kids and Lions
044 The Philosopher's Dream
045 Existence
047 Musical Interludes
048 Magical Days

057 Part II
057 Teaching Mathematics
061 Mathematical Logic
064 The Retrogrades
068 Godel and Island Truth-Tellers
078 Valid vs. Sound Arguments
093 Eastern Philosophy
095 On The Art of Management
097 God Religion
103 More School Days
107 Hobbies and Horsing Around
109 Joking Around
112 Indiana University
114 April Fools' Day
115 Ambrose, Gardner and Doyle
122 Graduate Schools
124 Music

129 Part III
129 Anatol Holt
132 Douglas R. Hofstadter
139 Robert Cowen
141 Gloria and Marvin Minsky
145 Ann Close
147 Mel Fitting
149 Leon Kirchner
150 Books; Submitted for Publication and Work in Progress

152 Part IV
152 Solutions to Puzzles

160 Colophon