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ISBN-13: | 9789814678551 |
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Publisher: | World Scientific Publishing Company, Incorporated |
Publication date: | 05/29/2015 |
Pages: | 180 |
Sales rank: | 896,631 |
Product dimensions: | 6.40(w) x 9.70(h) x 0.60(d) |
Table of Contents
Foreword v
Preface vii
Book I It's All a Question of Logic! 1
Chapter 1 Puzzles or Monkey Tricks? 3
Chapter 2 Which Lady? 13
Chapter 3 Which Witch? 17
Chapter 4 Which Island? 21
Chapter 5 McGregor's Arithmetic Tricks 25
Chapter 6 Ask Eldon White 29
Chapter 7 Al, the Chemist 33
Chapter 8 Sane or Mad? 35
Chapter 9 The Strange Case of McSnurd 39
Chapter 10 The Knight-Knave Disease 45
Chapter 11 Human or Android? 49
Chapter 12 Variable Lying and Paradox 53
Book II The Magic Garden 59
Chapter 13 George's Garden 61
Chapter 14 Some Neighboring Gardens 69
Chapter 15 The Grand Problem Solved! 75
Chapter 16 Boolean Gardens and Variable Liars 85
Chapter 17 Propositional Logic and Boolean Gardens 97
Chapter 18 The Boolean Theory of Sets 117
Chapter 19 Boolean Algebras in General 129
Chapter 20 Boolean Gardens Revisited 141
Chapter 21 Another Grand Problem 147
Chapter 22 George Boole and Mathematical Logic 165