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Available
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Publication
Oxford Paperbacks (1991), Edition: New edition, Paperback, 235 pages
Description
"Another scintillating collection of brilliant problems and paradoxes by the most entertaining logician and set theorist who ever lived." -- Martin Gardner. Inspired by the classic tale of a prisoner's dilemma, these whimsically themed challenges involve paradoxes about probability, time, and change; metapuzzles; and self-referentiality. Nineteen chapters advance in difficulty from relatively simple to highly complex.
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LibraryThing member rhymeswithtequila
My father gave me this book when I was about 10 and then swiped it back when I went off to college. I finally got myself a new copy a few years ago, and plan to give (give may be too strong of a word... let's say lend...) it to my own kids...
What a wonderful way to exercise your brain
What a wonderful way to exercise your brain
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Original publication date
1982
Physical description
235 p.; 7.48 inches
ISBN
0192861360 / 9780192861368
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Inspired by the classic tale of a prisoner's dilemma, these whimsically themed challenges involve paradoxes about probability, time, and change; metapuzzles; and self-referentiality. Nineteen chapters advance in difficulty from relatively simple to highly complex.