Symbolic Logic and the Game of Logic (Dover Recreational Math) - Softcover

Carroll, Lewis

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0486204928 ISBN 13: 9780486204925

Publisher: Dover Publications, 1958

Synopsis

In this unique fusion of logical thought and inimitable whimsy, Over 350 ingenious problems involve classical logic: logic is expressed in terms of symbols; syllogisms and the sorites are diagrammed; logic becomes a game played with 2 diagrams and a set of counters. Two books bound as one.

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Review:

Yes, this is the Lewis Carroll who wrote Alice in Wonderland, and these two works show the same quirky humor. Here you see Carroll the mathematician at his playful best. Don't let the title of the first work mislead you--this isn't about modern symbolic logic but about ways of expressing classical logic with symbols. It's loaded with amusing problems to delight any mathematical puzzler. In the second work he turns logic into a game played with diagrams and colored counters, giving you hundreds of challenging and witty syllogisms to solve. Great mind-stretching fun.

About the Author:

Lewis Carroll (1832–98) was the pseudonym of Charles Lutwidge Dodgson, a Professor of Mathematics at Cambridge University. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and its sequel, Through the Looking Glass, are rich repositories of his sparkling gifts for wordplay, logic, and fantasy.

About this edition

• Publisher: Dover Publications
• Publication date: 1958
• ISBN 10: 0486204928
• ISBN 13: 9780486204925
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 352