Why publishers of his books are not publishing in some ebook platforms at least some of them like "to mock mocking bird" or I fail to find it on amazon kindle or google ebooks
Raymond Smullyan has died
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Re: Raymond Smullyan has died
#52Why publishers of his books are not publishing in some ebook platforms at least some of them like "to mock mocking bird" or I fail to find it on amazon kindle or google ebooks
Also no ebook of "Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid"
Re: Raymond Smullyan has died
#53Why publishers of his books are not publishing in some ebook platforms at least some of them like "to mock mocking bird" or I fail to find it on amazon kindle or google ebooks
Re: Raymond Smullyan has died
#54Why publishers of his books are not publishing in some ebook platforms at least some of them like "to mock mocking bird" or I fail to find it on amazon kindle or google ebooks
https://play.google.com/store/books/details/Raymond_M_Smully...
Thanks although not available in the uk unfortunately
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#55Coming across The Tao is Silent in college changed my life forever. I've subsequently recommended it to select friends who seemed like they'd benefit from it and they've reported back and told me the book has had similar effects within their life. When I introduce Smullyan to people I explain that he is basically an IRL gandalf math/spirituality wizard. I just picked up A Spiritual Journey and Set Theory And The Cont…
> I found myself regretting that I'd never sent Obama a letter during his presidency and would never get the chance again
As one door closes, another opens. You have the chance to send Trump a letter.
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#56Smullyan's book on First-Order Logic is still the best textbook I have ever read in any subject. I wish more people would write as succinctly as he did.
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#57Earlier quoted context omitted.
Isn't this a spoiler? I haven't seen the puzzle in a while.
Not really. At worst it's a hint that asking hypothetical questions about how other gods would answer questions is useful.
That makes sense, in which case someone who's already had some experience thinking about liars-and-truthtellers puzzles gets nothing out new of it, and those are probably the overwhelming majority anyway.
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#58this is very sad. I live blocks from Lehman college but that was a few decades before my time (if he taught in 1979). Unrelated, there is also Melvyn Nathan who does additive combinatorics.
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#59I don't have much to add, except that when I read his books -- for me, the ones I fell in love with were The Lady or the Tiger, What is the Name of this Book? and To Mock a Mockingbird -- I felt I was communing with a spirit for whom wit, delight, charm and generosity were one. I'm delighted, and not a bit surprised, to hear he had this sort of presence in person.
Re: Raymond Smullyan has died
#60I don't have much to add, except that when I read his books -- for me, the ones I fell in love with were The Lady or the Tiger, What is the Name of this Book? and To Mock a Mockingbird -- I felt I was communing with a spirit for whom wit, delight, charm and generosity were one. I'm delighted, and not a bit surprised, to hear he had this sort of presence in person.
OH YEAH also Alice in Puzzleland! That might be the very best. Highest possible recommendation.