The Riddle of Scheherazade: And Other Amazing Puzzles

by Raymond M. Smullyan

Book Overview

225 fiendishly clever puzzles, brain-twisters, and paradoxes from the man Martin Gardner calls the "most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived." This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0156006065
• ISBN13: 9780156006064
• Release Date: November 1998
• Publisher: Houghton Mifflin
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.70 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.2" x 8.0"

Customer Reviews

One of the best math logic books for kids and adults

I would recommend this book for all parents of children age 7 and up.The logic problems are presented as short and wonderfully written stories, and my children just love to solve them. Great reference book for any math teacher/math team coach as well.

very cool riddle book

I bought this book because I like math and puzzles, and a friend who teaches middle school math had mentioned that she and her class were having fun going through the puzzles. I really enjoyed the puzzles in this book, most of which are math or number oriented, but some of which are more like word riddles. The answers and thought processes used are in the back of the book, although I swear a couple are wrong! I know this sounds a little odd, but doing the puzzles at night was a great help a few nights with insomnia (so I could think through a logic or math problem in my head until I fell asleep, rather than let my mind wander to more stessful life events...)

Better than Sam Loyd!

This is probably the best book on logic puzzles ever written (aside from other Smullyan books, that is). It is witty, challenging, and has problems of all kinds. The first half is framed as a continuation to the Arabian Nights, with ingenious and original puzzles (aside from the occasional oldy snuck in) given an Arabian touch. However, after those brilliant puzzles comes the greatest part of the book. The second half is a collection of puzzles, paradoxes, and even has a couple of chapters on coercive logic, invented by Raymond Smullyan himself. I reccomend this book to any logic buff, or indeed to anyone who's ever enjoyed a logic puzzle. And if you don't fall into either category, then you need this book all the more.

The best puzzle book I've ever read.

Ray Smullyan presents many different types of puzzles. I've read many puzzle books, and this is my favorite by far.

It's never been so much fun to learn.

This book is a cleaverly crafted web of logic problems with thier corresponding solutions. It begins with simple riddles and math problems then quickly leads you to deeper and more facinating problems. These puzzles are arranged in a wonderful narrative with the problems getting increasing complex. Depending on your level of interest, some of the more complex puzzles can easliy go over your head if you let them. The book is definately a lot of fun for math and logic buffs that enjoy being entertained and challenged.