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From: kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT)
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Subject: Re: Logic puzzle creation query
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Date: Sat, 7-Dec-85 09:46:54 EST
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For those of you who are looking for logic puzzles presented
systematically, I refer you to the logic puzzle books of
Raymond Smullyan.  He is a Professor of Mathematics, Logic,
and Philosophy at the University of Indiana.  His books
include _Alice in Puzzleland_, _What is the Name of This Book:
The Riddle of Dracula and Other Puzzles_ and _To Mock a Mockingbird_.
(That last book is an ornithological approach to combinatorial logic,
the logic of detective mysteries and jigsaw puzzles.)

Smullyan is one of the 6 greatest living mathematicians.  He is
enormously entertaining.  He is also one of the greatest exponents
of the Socratic Method that I have ever encountered.  Many of his
puzzles are presented in the form of dialogues (after Socrates and
Lewis Carroll).  Those of you who are also into Hofstadter will
find the link between them in _The Mind's I_.  When the world seems
hopelessly irrational, vexing, and perplexing, it feels good to spend
time with minds like Smullyan and Hofstadter.  Enjoy.

--Barry Kort