Satan, Cantor and Infinity: Mind-Boggling Puzzles

Publisher:

Dover Publications

Publication Date:

2009

Number of Pages:

270

Format:

Paperback

Price:

12.95

ISBN:

9780486470368

Category:

General

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Preface
PART I. LOGICAL SORCERY
The Lie Detective
When I Was a Boy
The Abduction of Annabelle
How Kazir Won His Wife
A Plague of Lies
On the Other Hand
The Island of Partial Silence
PART II. PUZZLES AND METAPUZZLES
Memories of the Sorcerer's Uncle
The Planet Og
Metapuzzles
PART III. SELF-REPRODUCING ROBOTS
The Island of Robots
The Quaint System of Professor Quincy
From the Ridiculous to the Simple
PART IV. GÖDELIAN PUZZLES
Self-Reference and Cross-Reference
The Sorcerer's Miniature Gödelian Language
PART V. HOW CAN THESE THINGS BE?
Something to Think About!
Of Time and Change
PART IV. A JOURNEY INTO INFINITY
What Is Infinity?
Cantor's Fundamental Discovery
But Some Paradoxes Arise!
Resolutions
The Continuum Problem
PART VII. HYPERGAME, PARADOXES, AND A STORY
Hypergame
Paradoxical?
Satan, Cantor, and Infinity