Four Lives

Four LivesThis "best of" collection of works by Raymond Smullyan features excerpts from his published writings, including logic puzzles, explorations of mathematical logic and paradoxes, retrograde analysis chess problems, jokes and anecdotes, and meditations on the philosophy of religion. In addition, numerous personal tributes salute this celebrated professor, author, and logic scholar who is also a magician and musician. Dover Original. Bonus Editorial

Step-by-step instructions and clear diagrams show paper folders at all levels of expertise how to fashion everything from common objects such as a house with a chimney to inspired plants

The Vampire

which includes both algebraic and transcendental curves

and with two tongues

Reprinted from authoritative French editions

summarizing original data (both by symmetric functions and by Tchebycheff's theorem)

in the days when illustrated books were inordinately costly

Aphra Behn (The Rover)

and moves frequently from one to the other

In this landmark of musical scholarship

They also depict the comic and disastrous results of ambition

current archaeological