Alice in Puzzle-Land: A Carrollian Tale for Children Under Eighty (Dover Recreational Math) by Raymond M. Smullyan (PDF)

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A charming and challenging adventure. — Wordplay, the Crossword Blog of The New York TimesAlice and her friends return for another romp through Wonderland and the Looking-Glass with these eighty-eight puzzles, paradoxes, and logic problems. Raymond M. Smullyan’s characters speak and behave like the originals, and their puzzles abound in typical Carrollian word play, logic problems, and dark philosophical paradoxes. Isaac Asimov described this book as “amusing, entertaining, and surprisingly educational. And it might just send you back to reread Alice.”Readers of all ages will delight in the charming stories and the wealth of ingenious puzzles. Written by a distinguished mathematician and creator of popular puzzle books, this volume requires no background in formal logic. The puzzles become progressively more complex, and complete solutions appear at the end. Puzzle authority Martin Gardner provides an Introduction to the text, which is enhanced by sixty charming illustrations. “An ingenious book,” declared the Boston Globe, “magnificent for those who like conundrums, amusing for those who don’t, and a tribute in itself to the genius of Lewis Carroll.”

User’s Reviews

Editorial Reviews: About the Author Raymond Smullyan received his PhD from Princeton University and taught at Dartmouth, Princeton, Indiana University, and New York’s Lehman College. Best known for his mathematical and creative logic puzzles and games, he was also a concert pianist and a magician. He wrote over a dozen books of logic puzzles and texts on mathematical logic. Raymond Smullyan: The Merry Prankster Raymond Smullyan (1919–2017), mathematician, logician, magician, creator of extraordinary puzzles, philosopher, pianist, and man of many parts. The first Dover book by Raymond Smullyan was First-Order Logic (1995). Recent years have brought a number of his magical books of logic and math puzzles: The Lady or the Tiger (2009); Satan, Cantor and Infinity (2009); an original, never-before-published collection, King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles (2010); and Set Theory and the Continuum Problem (with Melvin Fitting, also reprinted by Dover in 2010). More will be coming in subsequent years. In the Author’s Own Words:”Recently, someone asked me if I believed in astrology. He seemed somewhat puzzled when I explained that the reason I don’t is that I’m a Gemini.” “Some people are always critical of vague statements. I tend rather to be critical of precise statements: they are the only ones which can correctly be labeled ‘wrong.'” — Raymond Smullyan

Reviews from Amazon users which were colected at the time this book was published on the website:

⭐When my children were young they and I enjoyed this book and others by Smullyan. They remember this fondly.Now my 9 year-old granddaughter and I work puzzles from it in Zoom calls and once again enjoy it.For kids and grown-ups who like logic, this book is a delight.

⭐Puzzles, like riddles, are excellent ways to teach logic. All puzzle books of Smullyan are good. This one is relatively easy, and for a young person who enjoyed the stories of Alice in Wonderland, it could be real fun. My expectations were too high, I expected not only the author to use the characters of Alice, but I guess I expected him to be as inventive as Carroll himself. But most puzzles are of the well-known type: “three people answer this question like this and that, which one is telling the truth?” The puzzles themselves are not original or mind-bending, Alice is only a “decor,” so I got the feeling that it was a recycling of old material. Mostly.If you enjoy puzzles and you have kids, this is nevertheless a great gift.

⭐I only got it a couple days ago, but I’ve spent a lot more time on it than I intended to in that time because the puzzles draw you in and pull you on from puzzle to puzzle. The last couple nights at bed time, but 5-year-old has begged to do just one more puzzle.

⭐I bought this Alice in Puzzle-Land book as a gift for my grandson. My daughter usually reads stories to him at bedtime and I was not sure how my grandson would react to the puzzles. Zac loves the puzzles. Given the choice between a book and the puzzle book Zac chooses the puzzle book every time. My daughter likes it too. I guess I’ll be buying more of Smullyan’s books!

⭐As perfect as I remember it from years ago, this is a jewel, both to read, just to read anything by Ray Smullyan, but as an extremely stimulating puzzle book. I could read it over and over again and still want to read it AGAIN.Read it while reading (re-reading, hopefully) Carroll’s ‘Alice …’ books. A true pleasure of life.Rich Romano

⭐Smullyan writes great books

⭐It’s even for children over 80.

⭐No issues. Came advertised.

⭐This is the best book of logic problems I have ever read. It was my first Smullyan logic puzzle book and was not my last. Raymond Smullyan is the best writer of logic problems I have ever encountered and I have rarely been disappointed in his books. This is the perfect one to start with. One note – the illustrations are horrendous, a shame the publishing company didn’t hire a better artist.

⭐it was a joy to read

⭐Vous aimez Raymond Smullyan?Que ce soit Alice ou Shéhérazade, le principe et le plaisir reste toujours le même.Généralement quand on est amateurs de casse-têtes mathématiques on en redemande et on en veut toujours plus, ben c’est justement plus que nous offre ce livre qui se sert magistralement de l’univers de Lewis Carroll pour mettre en scène ses nouvelles énigmes.J’aurai du commencer mon commentaire par la question aimez-vous les casse-têtes logiques et mathématiques? Car quand c’est le cas vous connaissez et aimez sûrement Raymond Smullyan.Ce livre c’est du pur Smullyan, du pur Lewis Carroll, du pur casse-tête logique et …du pur plaisir.Devinez si je le recommande? …;o)

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⭐Just buy it thats all I’ll say.

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