The Riddle of Scheherazade: And Other Amazing Puzzles, Ancient and Modern by Raymond Smullyan (PDF)

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In his new book, Raymond Smullyan, grand vizier of the logic puzzle, joins Scheherazade, a charming young woman of “fantastic logical ingenuity,” to give us 1001 hours of brain-teasing fun. Scheherazade, we find, has gotten back into hot water with the king, and is once more in danger of losing her head at down. But, thinking quickly, she tempts the king to stay her execution by posing him the most delightfully devious mathematical and logic puzzle ever invented. They keep him guessing for many more nights until the fatal hour has passed, and she keeps her head. The Riddle of Scheherazade includes several wonderful old chestnuts and many fiendishly original puzzles, 225 in all. There are logic tricks and number games, metapuzzles (puzzles about puzzles), liar/truth-teller exercises, Gödelian brian twisters, baffling paradoxes, and an excursion, under Scheherazade’s expert guidance, into an amusing new field invented by Smullyan, called “coercive” logic, in which the answer to a problem can actually change the fate of the puzzler! An absolute must for all puzzle fans—from the middle-school whiz to the sophisticated mathematician or computer scientist.

User’s Reviews

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⭐This book has a ton of great riddles framed in a cute, if somewhat campy storyline about Scheherazade and the sultan. Many of the riddles require algebra, but I haven’t run into any more complicated math than that yet. The classic liar/truth-teller logic puzzles are here, as well as some more visual puzzles, and a few real “who am I?” riddles thrown in for fun.I highly recommend it for a math class–I end each class with 15 minutes of riddles (sometimes we do 3 or 4 in that time, sometimes it’s only enough to work through 1). Although to me some of the puzzles are just true algebra word problems, they never complain and love to figure them out.The later parts of the book move into more advanced logic puzzles and concepts, which I am considering using for my Geometry students. A really nice resource!

⭐My Discrete Math professor started a lecture with a riddle from this text, and I ended up seeking out a copy. This is absolutely beautiful. I showed my professor this copy and he was jealous! I would highly recommend this for anyone interested in problem solving.

⭐A good book to share.

⭐Very clever puzzles, and many different kinds as well. Very interesting, and presented in a fun way.

⭐I would recommend this book for all parents of children age 7 and up.The logic problems are presented as short and wonderfully written stories, and my children just love to solve them. Great reference book for any math teacher/math team coach as well.

⭐Excellent

⭐The book was in first-rate shape, as advertised.

⭐This book is full of logic puzzles. Really wish they’d bring Smullyans other books back into print.

⭐When I was in my teens I borrowed a book from the library called “what is the name of this book?” by Raymond Smullyan. The logic puzzles contained therein were something new to me and great fun-although I spent most of the time just looking up the answers rather than solving them! This book follows the same style and makes your head hurt if you read it for too long! Great for driving the family crazy-five stars!!!

⭐Smullyan’s books mix recreational math with entertainment, the author liked them to be called “math novels”. Having read several Smullyan’s books I can tell this book is also really good. Puzzles and riddles from it are not only logical, but recreational mathematics in general. There is a second part centered in coercive logic.

⭐Great mind puzzles, especially to get kids thinking.

⭐I liked the story. It was well written and engaging. A fun read.

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