Msg: 7116 *Conference*

04-16-97 10:01:25

From: COMET _

To : RON WIESEN

Subj: REPLY TO MSG #7112 (SOL CENTRIC VIEW)

"Raymond Smullyan, well-known mathematician and logician, is Oscar ewing
Professor of Philosphy at Indiana University and Professor Emeritus of the City
University of New York-Lehman College and Graduate Center.  His many writings
include five previous volumns of recreational logic and math problems, `What is
the Name of This Book?', `The Lady or the Tiger?', `Alice in Puzzleland', `To
Mock a Mockingbird', and `Forever Undecided'; two studies of deductive logic in
chess, `The Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes' and `The Chess Mysteries of the
Arabian Knights'; and three collections of philosophical essays and aphorisms,
`The Tao is Silent', `This Book Needs No Title', and `5000 B.C.'"  -- taken
from jacket copy of "Satan, Cantor, and Infinity (and other mind-boggling
puzzles)" published in 1992.