The Gödelian Puzzle Book

The Gödelian Puzzle BookThese brand new recreational logic puzzles provide entertaining variations on Gdel's incompleteness theorems, offering ingenious challenges related to infinity, truth and provability, undecidability, and other concepts. Created by the celebrated logician Raymond Smullyan, the puzzles require no background in formal logic and will delight readers of all ages. The two part selection of puzzles and paradoxes begins with examinations of the nature of

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this volume of candid conversations with the late Claudio Arrau is both a subtle portrait of one of the world's great concert artists and a vivid exploration of his unique and intensely felt beliefs about music and piano performance

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