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A philosopher, logician, mathematician, humorist, and magician presents a collection of puzzles ranging from simple arithmetic puzzles that can be solved by the very young to complex logic puzzles that require the ability to reason logically

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9780688007485 | William Morrow & Co, August 1, 1986, cover price $2.98 | About this edition: A philosopher, logician, mathematician, humorist, and magician presents a collection of puzzles ranging from simple arithmetic puzzles that can be solved by the very young to complex logic puzzles that require the ability to reason logically

A range of puzzles dealing with word play and logic, mathematics and philosophy, featuring Alice and the creatures of Wonderland.

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9780688021979 | William Morrow & Co, December 1, 1999, cover price $25.02

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9780140070569 | Viking Pr, May 1, 1984, cover price $6.95 | About this edition: A range of puzzles dealing with word play and logic, mathematics and philosophy, featuring Alice and the creatures of Wonderland.

Product Description: Here -- from philosopher/logician/puzzlemaker Raymond Smullyan -- are fifty elegant, witty, and altogether unique "chess mysteries." In each problem the solver has to deduce certain events in a game's past. For example: On what square was the White queen captured? or, Is the White queen promoted or original?Since these problems involve the same sort of logical reasoning that lies at the core of the Sherlock Holmes stories, Raymond Smullyan has aptly set each one within its own Holmes-Watson dialogue...read more

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9780192861238 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, October 1, 1995), cover price $6.99 | About this edition: Here -- from philosopher/logician/puzzlemaker Raymond Smullyan -- are fifty elegant, witty, and altogether unique "chess mysteries.

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Chess problems in retrograde analysis occur in new Arabian Knights stories in which the chess pieces are the main characters

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9780394514673 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, December 1, 1981, cover price $13.50 | About this edition: Chess problems in retrograde analysis occur in new Arabian Knights stories in which the chess pieces are the main characters

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9780192861245 | Reprint edition (Oxford Univ Pr, May 1, 1992), cover price $6.99
9780394748696 | 1 edition (Random House Inc, November 1, 1981), cover price $6.95 | About this edition: Chess problems in retrograde analysis occur in new Arabian Knights stories in which the chess pieces are the main characters

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9780486683706 | Dover Pubns, January 30, 1995, cover price $10.95

Product Description: This book provides an introduction to Kurt Godel's theorems through a collection of puzzles interspersed with an account of symbolic logic. Godel's argument has been transferred from the formal domain of mathematical systems in an attempt to make its essential ideas more accessible to the general reader...read more

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9780394549439 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, March 1, 1987, cover price $17.95 | About this edition: Collects a variety of mathematics and logic puzzles, some based on the theorems of the mathematician Kurt Godel

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9780192821966 | Oxford Univ Pr, June 1, 1988, cover price $7.50 | also contains Flora of China: Orchidaceae | About this edition: This book provides an introduction to Kurt Godel's theorems through a collection of puzzles interspersed with an account of symbolic logic.

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9780195046724 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, August 20, 1992, cover price $240.00

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A series of logic problems and puzzles relating important mathematical and logical concepts, includes paradoxes, metapuzzles, number exercises, and a mathematical novel

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9780812921175 | Reprint edition (Times Books, November 1, 1992), cover price $12.50 | About this edition: A series of logic problems and puzzles relating important mathematical and logical concepts, includes paradoxes, metapuzzles, number exercises, and a mathematical novel

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9781568814438 | A K Peters Ltd, January 30, 2009, cover price $57.95

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9780195082326 | Oxford Univ Pr on Demand, January 28, 1993, cover price $160.00

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9780517370292 | Random House Value Pub, May 1, 1999, cover price $3.99

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A perplexing and delightfully mischievous collection of more than two hundred mindbending puzzles demystifies the Scheherazade and the Arabian Nights enigmas and includes logic tricks, number games, true/false paradoxes, a foray into the world of 'coercive logic,' and much more. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.

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9780679446347 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, June 1, 1997, cover price $22.50 | About this edition: Once again in trouble with the king and in danger of losing her head, clever Scheherazade teases the king with a selection of 225 devious mathematical and logic puzzles, including Godelian brain twisters, paradoxes, metapuzzles, logic tricks, number games, and more.

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9780156006064 | Mariner Books, November 1, 1998, cover price $14.95 | About this edition: A collection of more than two hundred mindbending puzzles demystifies Scheherazade and the Arabian Nights enigmas and includes logic tricks, number games, true/false paradoxes, and logic puzzles

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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.

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9780679406884 | Alfred a Knopf Inc, November 1, 1992, cover price $21.00 | About this edition: Features more than two hundred challenging new logic puzzles, ranging from simple brainteasers to complex mathematical paradoxes

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9780486470368, titled "Satan, Cantor & Infinity: Mind-Boggling Puzzles" | Dover Pubns, March 26, 2009, cover price $14.95

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9780198523956 | Oxford Univ Pr, November 14, 1996, cover price $95.00

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9780486474847 | Revised edition (Dover Pubns, April 21, 2010), cover price $15.95

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Product Description: 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...read more

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9781888710106 | Thinkers Pr Inc / Chessco, November 1, 2002, cover price $15.95 | About this edition: Can a lady be kissed without being touched?

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9780060674694 | Reissue edition (Harperone, September 1, 1992), cover price $14.99

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