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From: andrews@yale.ARPA (Thomas O. Andrews)
Newsgroups: net.puzzle,net.math
Subject: Re: Logic puzzle creation query
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Date: Sun, 8-Dec-85 19:44:51 EST
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Posted: Sun Dec  8 19:44:51 1985
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In article <435@hounx.UUCP> kort@hounx.UUCP (B.KORT) writes:
>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

   Has Smullyan actually done anything significant?  Meaning no disrespect,
but I think of Smullyan as clever version of Martin Gardner?  Any support of
the claim that he is one of the "6 greatest living mathematicians?"  Greatest
in what sense? He's a clever communicator,and a bright problem solver, but as
a mathematician, what has he contributed to the field?  Anyone out there with
details?


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					      Thomas Andrews
					      andrews-thomas@yale