Books by Raymond Smullyan

Now a generation of readers can be charmed and inspired by this witty, sophisticated author. This book looks at the ideas inspired by Taoism that treat a wide variety of subjects about life in general. By the author of "This Book Needs No Title" and "Alice in Puzzleland".

Features an approach to the teaching of mathematical logic by putting it in the context of the puzzles and paradoxes of common language and rational thought. Using the logic of lying and truth-telling, this book introduces the informal reasoning preparing them for the formal study of symbolic logic, from propositional logic to first-order logic.