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Raymond M. Smullyan

Raymond Merrill Smullyan was an American mathematician, magician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher.

Born in Far Rockaway, New York, his first career was stage magic. He earned a BSc from the University of Chicago in 1955 and his Ph.D. from Princeton University in 1959. He is one of many logicians to have studied with Alonzo Church.

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Born 25 May 1919
Died 6 Feb 2017

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  • Cover of: The lady or the tiger?: and other logic puzzles, including a mathematical novel that features Gödel's great discovery

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  • Cover of: The chess mysteries of Sherlock Holmes: 50 tantalizing problems of chess detection

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  • Cover of: Whodunnit?: Utterly Baffling Detective Stories

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  • Cover of: Za vedno neodločeno: ugankarski vodič za Gödela

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  • Cover of: The riddle of Scheherazade and other amazing puzzles, ancient & modern

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  • Cover of: Gödel's incompleteness theorems

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  • Cover of: 5000 B.C. and other philosophical fantasies

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Born 25 May 1919
Died 6 Feb 2017

Subjects

Mathematical recreations, Logic puzzles, Puzzles, Philosophical recreations, Gödel's theorem, Logic, Logic, symbolic and mathematical, Symbolic and mathematical Logic, Casse-tête, Jeux mathématiques, Logic, Symbolic and mathematical, Logique, Philosophy, Arithmétique, Chess problems, Devinettes et énigmes, Goedel's theorem, Logika, Logique symbolique et mathématique, MATHEMATICS / Logic, MATHEMATICS / Recreations & Games, Mathematics, Miscellanea, Recursion theory, Wit and humor

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Calcutta, England, India, Surrey, United States

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Sherlock Holmes, Grimesby Roylott, Helen Stoner, John H. Watson, Kurt Gödel (1906-1978), Raymond M. Smullyan, Stroke Moran

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February 15, 2023 Edited by Stew Add soc. link, delete extra aliases.
February 12, 2023 Edited by Stew Delete Dup date.
November 28, 2022 Edited by bitnapper Edited without comment.
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