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The Riddle of Scheherazade: and Other Amazing Puzzles, Ancient & Modern

Authors:
Raymond M. Smullyan (author) and Claudine Guerguerian (covers)
Language:
English
Original language:
English
Publisher:
Harvest Books
Categories:
Logic, mathematics and puzzle
Publication year:
1997
Original publication year:
1997
ISBN:
0-15-600606-5
Pages:
224
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  • Preface

BOOK ONE The Grand Question of Scheherazade

  • The Source
  • In Which Is Related How Scheherazade Entertained the King on the Thousand-and-Third Night
  • Wherein Is Related How Scheherazade Further Entertained the King on the Thousand-and-Fourth Night
  • The Thousand-and-Fifth Night, in Which Scheherazade Relates Some Puzzles of Ancient Origin
  • The Thousand-and-Sixth Night, in Which Scheherazade Gives the King Some Problems in Probability
  • The Thousand-and-Seventh Night, in Which Scheherazade Relates Some Exploits of Some of Ali Baba Forty Thieves
  • In Which Scheherazade Relates Some More Puzzles on This Thousand-and-Eighth Night and Concludes with a Clever Mathematical Observation
  • In Which Is Related Scheherazade's Wondrous Account of the Mazdaysians and Aharmanites
  • The Thousand-and-Tenth Night, in Which Scheherazade Gives a Further Account of the Mazdaysians and Aharmanites
  • In Which Is Related How Scheherazade Entertained the King with Some Special Items on This Thousand-and-Eleventh Night
  • Scheherazade's Puzzles and Metapuzzles of the Thousand-and-Twelfth Night
  • The Thousand-and-Thirteenth Night in Which Scheherazade Relates the Story of Al-Khizr
  • The Grand Question!

BOOK TWO From Scheherazade to Modern Logic

  • Coercive Logic
  • Right- and Left-Handed Coercion
  • The Ultimate in Coercive Logic
  • Variable Liars
  • Chinese or japanese?
  • Oron and Seth
  • Which Personality?
  • Oh No!
  • A Mixed Bag: Some Logic Tricks and Games
  • Some Special Problems
  • Some Strange Paradoxes!
  • Solutions to the Scheherazade Puzzles

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