Lady or the Tiger and Other Logic Puzzles

by Raymond M. Smullyan

Book Overview

"Another scintillating collection of brilliant problems and paradoxes by the most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived." -- Martin Gardner"Smullyan is not your run-of-the-mill... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0812921178
• ISBN13: 9780812921175
• Release Date: October 1992
• Publisher: Random House Puzzles & Games
• Length: 226 Pages
• Weight: 0.69 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.3"

Customer Reviews

great book lots of fun

this book of logic puzzles is a highly intriguing story, will the prisoners get eaten... or married? this book is great for a classroom full of kids, each one has a different talent for solving these difficult puzzles, even if you some 8 yr olds and some paper and some time, I highly reccomend this book to any one with knack for puzzles

great book for the family

I read this book 20 years ago when I was a plain physics student. Know with my son (8) I bought again and we both enjoy a good time exercising our brains and, besides, my son develops logic reasoning to solve many problems. This book is excelent to prevent Alzheimer.

Extremely satisfying brain-meltdown

If you're a fan of logic & puzzles, this is definitely worth picking up. It starts simple and works its way up to nearly impossible, so there should be something on everyone's level. The book is kind of a narrative, but its main purpose is to display and explain more and more advanced logic. I first found this book when I was 15 or so among my Uncle's things when I was visiting. I stayed up half the night working through the puzzles, but after about halfway through the book, I was completely lost. Years later, after studying symbolic logic in college, I go back and the book gives me new pleasure, though I still can't get through 'all' of it - not quite ;P Its somewhat of a Logic Quest, really. If you enjoy a challenge, definitely pick this one up.

Deduce like Holmes!

Well, or at least, think about it. This small little book by Smullyan is a fantastic collection of logic puzzles arranged in the increasing order of complexity & complete with solutions. For those of you not intimately familiar with logic puzzles, Wikipedia provides a good definition. And interestingly enough, Smullyan's name & this book are mentioned in that very article. I cannot quite understand why such a book would be out print, but may be there are other ways of passing your time. Back to the book. The great thing about a verbal puzzle, unlike a non-verbal one like Sudoku, is that there is a story behind it. So while both may be mathematics, if you get a Sudoku wrong - yes, well, nothing much happens. However, if a prisoner who has to deduce an escape route or die - now that's an entirely different proposition. So the "old-fashioned" story-telling continues - different situations, doctors & patients, sane or insane, vampire or human, the Isle of dreams & so on. Even if you do not have the time yourself, I think this is still a great book to give a child. It is a fun way to learn Mathematics without realizing that you're learning Mathematics. And frankly, wouldn't you just love just love to say something that begins with "Elementary, my dear Watson" S!

Intellectually stimulating

This is a fine book with independent chapters that can be dipped into when you want some good intellectual company. The first few puzzles got me hooked. Smullyan is very good at giving a new twist to old puzzles.