Games for your mind : the history and future of logic puzzles / Jason Rosenhouse.
Games for your mind : the history and future of logic puzzles / Jason Rosenhouse.
Games for your mind : the history and future of logic puzzles / Jason Rosenhouse.
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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G 2021/0145
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English
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xiv, 333 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
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text
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unmediated
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volume
Contents
I. The Pain and Pleasure of Logic -- 1. Is Logic Boring and Pointless? -- 2. Logic Just for Fun -- II. Lewis Carroll and Aristotelian Logic -- 3. Aristotle's Syllogistic -- 4. The Empuzzlement of Aristotelian Logic -- 5. Sorites Puzzles -- 6. Carroll's Contributions to Mind -- III. Raymond Smullyan...
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Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2020]
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New Jersey
Date Published
[2020]
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Summary
Logic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since. Games like Sudoku and Mastermind are fun and engrossing recreational activities, but they also share deep foundations in mathematical logic and are worthy of serious intellectual inquiry. Games for Your Mind explores t...
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Games for your mind : the history and future of logic puzzles / Jason Rosenhouse.
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History and future of logic puzzles
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Includes bibliographical references (pages [319]-326) and index.
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©2020
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G 2021/0145
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74VKa7Naox2b
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https://devfeature-collection.sl.nsw.gov.au/record/74VKa7Naox2b
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ISBN
0691174075
9780691174075
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793.73
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991024386513302626
