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St. Martin's Press, 1983. — 224 p. «Five Thousand B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies» by Raymond Smullyan is a collection of paradoxes, dialogues, problems, and essays exploring philosophical ideas. This fascinating book will challenge your understanding of reality, truth, morality, existence, and death. Raymond Smullyan is a logician, mathematician, and philosopher and is...

Penguin Books, 1986. — 182 p. — ISBN: 0688007481 Characters from Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and Through the Looking-Glass populate these 88 intriguing puzzles. Mathematician Raymond Smullyan re-creates the spirit of Lewis Carroll's writings in puzzles involving word play, logic and metalogic, and philosophical paradoxes. Challenges range from easy to difficult and include...

Prentice-Hall, Inc., 1980. - 185 p. American mathematical logician, puzzle-maker, and magician, who has taught in various colleges but is best known for his books on recreational mathematics. Among these are «What is the name of this book?», «The Lady or the Tiger», «The Tao is Silent», and «This Book Needs No Title: A Budget of Living Paradoxes». Smullyan is an inventive maker...