Book Description
The author of Forever Undecided, Raymond Smullyan continues to delight and astonish us with his gift for making available, in the thoroughly pleasurable form of puzzles, some of the most important mathematical thinking of our time.
Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 258 pages
File Size : 34,95 MB
Release : 2000
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0192801422
The author of Forever Undecided, Raymond Smullyan continues to delight and astonish us with his gift for making available, in the thoroughly pleasurable form of puzzles, some of the most important mathematical thinking of our time.
Author : Harper Lee
Publisher : Harper Collins
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 34,63 MB
Release : 2014-07-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0062368680
Voted America's Best-Loved Novel in PBS's The Great American Read Harper Lee's Pulitzer Prize-winning masterwork of honor and injustice in the deep South—and the heroism of one man in the face of blind and violent hatred One of the most cherished stories of all time, To Kill a Mockingbird has been translated into more than forty languages, sold more than forty million copies worldwide, served as the basis for an enormously popular motion picture, and was voted one of the best novels of the twentieth century by librarians across the country. A gripping, heart-wrenching, and wholly remarkable tale of coming-of-age in a South poisoned by virulent prejudice, it views a world of great beauty and savage inequities through the eyes of a young girl, as her father—a crusading local lawyer—risks everything to defend a black man unjustly accused of a terrible crime.
Author : Raymond Smullyan
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 16,32 MB
Release : 1986-10-15
Category : Science
ISBN : 0671628313
From Simon & Schuster, This Book Needs No Title is Raymond Smullyan's budget of living paradoxes—the author of What is the Name of This Book? Including eighty paradoxes, logical labyrinths, and intriguing enigmas progress from light fables and fancies to challenging Zen exercises and a novella and probe the timeless questions of philosophy and life.
Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Knopf
Page : 281 pages
File Size : 10,40 MB
Release : 2012-05-30
Category : Games & Activities
ISBN : 0307819825
More than two hundred new and challenging logic puzzles—the simplest brainteaser to the most complex paradoxes in contemporary mathematical thinking—from our topmost puzzlemaster (“the most entertaining logician who ever lived,” Martin Gardner has called him). Our guide to the puzzles is the Sorcerer, who resides on the Island of Knights and Knaves, where knights always tell the truth and knaves always lie, and he introduces us to the amazing magic—logic—that enables to discover which inhabitants are which. Then, in a picaresque adventure in logic, he takes us to the planet Og, to the Island of Partial Silence, and to a land where metallic robots wearing strings of capital letters are noisily duplicating and dismantling themselves and others. The reader’s job is to figure out how it all works. Finally, we accompany the Sorcerer on an alluring tour of Infinity which includes George Cantor’s amazing mathematical insights. The tour (and the book) ends with Satan devising a diabolical puzzle for one of Cantor’s prize students—who outwits him! In sum: a devilish magician’s cornucopia of puzzles—a delight for every age and level of ability.
Author : Kathryn Erskine
Publisher : Usborne Publishing Ltd
Page : 170 pages
File Size : 41,24 MB
Release : 2018-01-01
Category : Young Adult Fiction
ISBN : 1409541673
Caitlin misses her brother every day. Since his death in a school shooting, she has no one to explain the world to her. And for Caitlin, the world is a confusing place. She hates it when colours get mixed up, prefers everything to be black-and-white, and needs to check her Facial Expressions Chart to understand emotions. So when Caitlin reads the definition of "closure", she decides that's what she needs. And as she struggles to find it, a world of colour begins to enter her black-and-white life...
Author : Chuck Wendig
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 368 pages
File Size : 40,95 MB
Release : 2015-05-05
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1481448684
Miriam Black is trying to live an ordinary life, keeping her ability to see how someone dies hidden...until a serial killer crosses her path. This is the second book in the Miriam Black series. “Visceral and often brutal, this tale vibrates with emotional rawness that helps to paint a bleak, unrelenting picture of life on the edge.” —Publishers Weekly Miriam is trying. Really, she is. But this whole “settling down thing” just isn’t working out. She lives on Long Beach Island all year in a run-down, double-wide trailer. She works at a grocery store as a checkout girl. And her relationship with Louis—who’s on the road half the time in his truck—is subject to the mood swings Miriam brings to everything she does. It just isn’t going well. Still, she’s keeping her psychic ability—to see when and how someone is going to die just by touching them—in check. But even that feels wrong somehow. Like she’s keeping a tornado stopped up in a tiny bottle. Then comes the one bad day that turns it all on her ear.
Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 242 pages
File Size : 12,49 MB
Release : 2009-01-01
Category : Science
ISBN : 048647027X
"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.
Author : Paul Acampora
Publisher : Macmillan
Page : 177 pages
File Size : 26,32 MB
Release : 2014-05-20
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 1596437421
Best friends Lucy, Elena, and Michael are excited to see "To Kill A Mockingbird" on their summer reading list. But not everyone in their class shares the same enthusiasm. So they hatch a plot to get the entire town talking about Harper Lee's classic novel.
Author : Annette Simon
Publisher :
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 24,77 MB
Release : 2005
Category : Birds
ISBN : 9781894965293
A blue mockingbird chides a red mockingbird for singing the same song, but they find when they sing together, they make beautiful music
Author : Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher : Courier Corporation
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 17,59 MB
Release : 2013-08-21
Category : Mathematics
ISBN : 0486315770
These logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Gödel's incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and other concepts. No background in formal logic necessary.