Name: What is the name of this book?
ISBN: 9780486481982

What is the name of this book?

"In his most critically acclaimed work, a well-known mathematician, magician, and author spins a logical labyrinth of more than 200 increasingly complex and challenging problems - puzzles that delve into some of the deepest paradoxes of logic and set theory. Solutions."The most original, most profound, and most humorous collection of recreational logic and math problems ever written." - Martin Gardner"

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surprisetalkNov 2023

Andy Weir's The Egg is another excellent short story:

[1] http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

If you're looking for more short stories, I highly recommend the following:

• Ted Chiang's Exhalation

• Ted Chiang's Story of Your Life and Others

• Ken Liu's Paper Menagerie

• Borges's Ficciones

• Smullyan's What is the Name of This Book?

• Smullyan's Lady or the Tiger?

• Douglas Adams's God's Debris

Remember to support local booksellers when possible :)

[2] https://bookshop.org

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pasquinelliMar 2022

my daughter and i have used "what is the name of this book?" and now "to mock a mockingbird" as the first slot in the day for her homeschooling. his books are really wonderful. public schools should be lousy with them.

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JtsummersMar 2021

I finished What is the name of this book? by Smullyan and am halfway through The Lady or the Tiger? (also Smullyan). I'd read the latter years ago along with one other book of his. I'll find out which it was when I get to it and recognize the text. They've been a pleasant, light diversion in the evenings the past few weeks (with stretches of not reading them and doing programming learning/side projects).

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aYsY4dDQ2NrcNzAFeb 2017

In high school I enjoyed reading "What Is the Name of This Book?" Lots of fun.

https://archive.org/details/WhatIsTheNameOfThisBook

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505Feb 2017

Challenged by What Is the Name of This Book but loved it.

If Hofstadter hadn't changed my life forever, maybe Smullyan would have.

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brw12Feb 2017

I don't have much to add, except that when I read his books -- for me, the ones I fell in love with were The Lady or the Tiger, What is the Name of this Book? and To Mock a Mockingbird -- I felt I was communing with a spirit for whom wit, delight, charm and generosity were one. I'm delighted, and not a bit surprised, to hear he had this sort of presence in person.

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