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.