A new book published by Kinneret - on the occasion of Book Week starting today
Avi Blizovsky
The book "What is the name of this book?, The Mystery of Dracula and Other Riddles of Logic" by Raymond Smolyan was published by Kinneret Publishing House in honor of Book Week.
This collection of hundreds of logic puzzles presents a magical and complex world of riddles that, as they get more and more complicated, they continue to keep you intrigued. Among the heroes: Alice from Wonderland, priests of mysterious gods, a king's daughter who is tired of liars and another one who is tired of righteous people, expert craftsmen from medieval Italy, the walking dead (some of whom are also crazy with certificates), and even a group of vampires led by Count Dracula who is fighting for life and death with the author of the book In his glory.
At the end of each chapter, the solutions to the riddles are provided, and the reader is led, step by step, to ever-increasing challenges, until almost without realizing it, the book reaches its climax with a discussion of Gödel's theorem - one of the cornerstones of mathematical logic in the twentieth century.
Professor Raymond Smolyan (an American Jew born in 1919, one of the students of Alonzo Church) is one of the most well-known mathematicians and logicians in the world - along with being a magician, a professional pianist and a telescope builder. In his lectures, Smolyan uses this riddle book, with its humor and challenges, to entice his students to activate their brain cells.
According to Smolyan's method, any academic question can be presented as a fascinating puzzle - and in this book he demonstrates the power of the approach. The book became famous all over the world as one of the books that contributed a lot to a wide acquaintance with the strange world of the theory of logic.
What is the name of this book?, The Mystery of Dracula and Other Riddles of Logic by Raymond Smolyan, the great guru of logic puzzles, published by Kinneret, from English: Ido Amin, edited by: Dr. Meir Goldberg, Leon Paradise, and there are also solutions to the riddles, 251 pages.
Here is a short and easy riddle from the book:
A train leaves from Boston to New York. An hour later a train leaves from New York to Boston. Both trains travel at exactly the same speed. When they pass each other, which train will be closer to Boston?
Please leave answers in the talkback.
The bookworm
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If they pass each other they are in the same place, right?
Same