The Riddle of Scheherazade

by Raymond Smullyan

• ISBN13: 9780679446347
• ISBN10: 0679446346
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2012-08-22
• Publisher: Random House Digital Inc.

Summary

225 fiendishly clever puzzles, brain-twisters, and paradoxes from the man Martin Gardner calls the "most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived."

Table of Contents

Preface	ix
BOOK ONE The Grand Question of Scheherazade	1	(82)
I The Source	3	(4)
II In Which Is Related How Scheherazade Entertained the King on the Thousand-and-Third Night	7	(8)
III Wherein Is Related How Scheherazade Further Entertained the King on the Thousand-and-Fourth Night	15	(8)
IV The Thousand-and-Fifth Night, in Which Scheherazade Relates Some Puzzles of Ancient Origin	23	(7)
V The Thousand-and-Sixth Night, in Which Scheherazade Gives the King Some Problems in Probability	30	(5)
VI The Thousand-and-Seventh Night, in Which Scheherazade Relates Some Exploits of Some of Ali Baba's Forty Thieves	35	(7)
VII In Which Scheherazade Relates Some More Puzzles on This Thousand-and-Eighth Night and Concludes with a Clever Mathematical Observation	42	(6)
VIII In Which Is Related Scheherazade's Wondrous Account of the Mazdaysians and Aharmanites	48	(8)
IX The Thousand-and-Tenth Night, in Which Scheherazade Gives a Further Account of the Mazdaysians and Aharmanites	56	(6)
X In Which Is Related How Scheherazade Entertained the King with Some Special Items on This Thousand-and-Eleventh Night	62	(7)
XI Scheherazade's Puzzles and Metapuzzles of the Thousand-and-Twelfth Night	69	(5)
XII The Thousand-and-Thirteenth Night, in Which Scheherazade Relates the Story of Al-Khizr	74	(5)
XIII The Grand Question!	79	(4)
BOOK TWO From Scheherazade to Modern Logic	83	(94)
XIV Coercive Logic	85	(9)
XV Right- and Left-Handed Coercion	94	(7)
XVI The Ultimate in Coercive Logic	101	(7)
XVII Variable Liars	108	(6)
XVIII Chinese or Japanese?	114	(6)
XIX Oron and Seth	120	(6)
XX Which Personality?	126	(5)
XXI Oh No!	131	(12)
XXII A Mixed Bag: Some Logic Tricks and Games	143	(9)
XXIII Some Special Problems	152	(11)
XXIV Some Strange Paradoxes!	163	(14)
Solutions to the Scheherazade Puzzles	177