Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty
暫譯: 《拼圖國的愛麗絲:一個適合八十歲以下兒童的卡羅爾故事》

Smullyan, Raymond M., Gardner, Martin, Fitting, Greer

  • 出版商: Dover Publications
  • 出版日期: 2011-12-08
  • 售價: $730
  • 貴賓價: 9.5$694
  • 語言: 英文
  • 頁數: 192
  • 裝訂: Quality Paper - also called trade paper
  • ISBN: 0486482006
  • ISBN-13: 9780486482002
  • 相關分類: 離散數學 Discrete-mathematics
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商品描述

"A charming and challenging adventure." -- Wordplay, the Crossword Blog of The New York TimesAlice and her friends return for another romp through Wonderland and the Looking-Glass with these eighty-eight puzzles, paradoxes, and logic problems. Raymond M. Smullyan's characters speak and behave like the originals, and their puzzles abound in typical Carrollian word play, logic problems, and dark philosophical paradoxes. Isaac Asimov described this book as "amusing, entertaining, and surprisingly educational. And it might just send you back to reread Alice."
Readers of all ages will delight in the charming stories and the wealth of ingenious puzzles. Written by a distinguished mathematician and creator of popular puzzle books, this volume requires no background in formal logic. The puzzles become progressively more complex, and complete solutions appear at the end. Puzzle authority Martin Gardner provides an Introduction to the text, which is enhanced by sixty charming illustrations. "An ingenious book," declared the Boston Globe, "magnificent for those who like conundrums, amusing for those who don't, and a tribute in itself to the genius of Lewis Carroll."

商品描述(中文翻譯)

「一場迷人且具挑戰性的冒險。」-- Wordplay,《紐約時報》的填字遊戲部落格

愛麗絲和她的朋友們再次回到仙境和鏡子世界,帶來這八十八個謎題、悖論和邏輯問題。雷蒙德·M·斯穆利安(Raymond M. Smullyan)的角色言談舉止如同原著,謎題中充滿了典型的卡羅爾式文字遊戲、邏輯問題和黑暗的哲學悖論。艾薩克·阿西莫夫(Isaac Asimov)形容這本書為「有趣、娛樂且出乎意料地具教育意義。它可能會讓你回去重讀《愛麗絲》。」

各年齡層的讀者都會喜愛這些迷人的故事和豐富的巧妙謎題。這本書由一位傑出的數學家和流行謎題書的創作者撰寫,無需具備正式邏輯的背景。謎題的難度逐漸增加,完整的解答會在最後出現。謎題權威馬丁·加德納(Martin Gardner)為本書提供了導言,並附有六十幅迷人的插圖。《波士頓環球報》(Boston Globe)宣稱:「這是一本巧妙的書,對於喜歡謎題的人來說是壯觀的,對於不喜歡的人則是有趣的,並且本身就是對路易斯·卡羅爾(Lewis Carroll)天才的致敬。」

作者簡介

Raymond Smullyan received his PhD from Princeton University and taught at Dartmouth, Princeton, Indiana University, and New York's Lehman College. Best known for his mathematical and creative logic puzzles and games, he was also a concert pianist and a magician. He wrote over a dozen books of logic puzzles and texts on mathematical logic. Raymond Smullyan: The Merry Prankster
Raymond Smullyan (1919-2017), mathematician, logician, magician, creator of extraordinary puzzles, philosopher, pianist, and man of many parts. The first Dover book by Raymond Smullyan was First-Order Logic (1995). Recent years have brought a number of his magical books of logic and math puzzles: The Lady or the Tiger (2009); Satan, Cantor and Infinity (2009); an original, never-before-published collection, King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles (2010); and Set Theory and the Continuum Problem (with Melvin Fitting, also reprinted by Dover in 2010). More will be coming in subsequent years.

In the Author's Own Words:
"Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don't is that I'm a Gemini."

"Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements: they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled 'wrong.'" -- Raymond Smullyan

作者簡介(中文翻譯)

雷蒙德·斯穆利安(Raymond Smullyan)於普林斯頓大學獲得博士學位,並曾在達特茅斯學院、普林斯頓大學、印第安納大學及紐約的雷曼學院任教。他以數學和創意邏輯謎題及遊戲而聞名,同時也是一位音樂會鋼琴家和魔術師。他撰寫了十多本邏輯謎題和數學邏輯的書籍。
**雷蒙德·斯穆利安:快樂的惡作劇者**
雷蒙德·斯穆利安(1919-2017),數學家、邏輯學家、魔術師、非凡謎題的創造者、哲學家、鋼琴家,以及多才多藝的人。雷蒙德·斯穆利安的第一本多佛書籍是《一階邏輯》(First-Order Logic,1995)。近年來,他出版了多本關於邏輯和數學謎題的魔幻書籍:《獅子與虎》(The Lady or the Tiger,2009);《撒旦、康托爾與無限》(Satan, Cantor and Infinity,2009);一部原創、從未出版過的合集《亞瑟王尋找他的狗及其他奇妙謎題》(King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles,2010);以及《集合論與連續性問題》(Set Theory and the Continuum Problem,與梅爾文·費廷(Melvin Fitting)合著,2010年也由多佛再版)。未來幾年還會有更多作品推出。

**作者的話:**
「最近,有人問我是否相信占星術。當我解釋我不相信的原因是因為我是雙子座時,他似乎有些困惑。」
「有些人總是對模糊的陳述持批評態度。我則傾向於批評精確的陳述:它們是唯一可以正確標記為『錯誤』的陳述。」 -- 雷蒙德·斯穆利安

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