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What Is the Name of This Book?
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A really excellent set of puzzles, for which I have only minor complaints: first, they tend to be easy, medium, or impossible. (I don't particularly enjoy the open-ended ones, like "what would you say." But I think it's just a time thing--if I can solve the problem in 2-5 minutes, that's just fun. If I have to put in REAL time, then I feel like I should be doing some actual work.) Also, the set of puzzles involving insane vs. sane, liars vs. truth-tellers I could never wrap my mind around. It's too hard to figure out when the insane people don't have any consistency to their beliefs. Like, how can someone believe they are a human but not believe that they believe they're human. Anyway, this section is probably logically valid, but posing it as "belief" makes it extremely difficult.
Mad props for doing a set of puzzles built around the Incompleteness Theorem, though. That section is fantastic.
I would love to find a way to use this book as a text for an intro to logic. It's a fantastic introduction (in puzzle form!) to logical argument, conjunction and disjunction, implication, proof by contradiction, negation, etc.
Mad props for doing a set of puzzles built around the Incompleteness Theorem, though. That section is fantastic.
I would love to find a way to use this book as a text for an intro to logic. It's a fantastic introduction (in puzzle form!) to logical argument, conjunction and disjunction, implication, proof by contradiction, negation, etc.
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Nov 13, 2018 09:50AM
I do use riddles from this book whenever I teach an "introduction to proofs" course. They are specially helpful for students to learn how conjunction, disjunction and conditional statements work.
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I'm not teaching such a class for the third time, and I had sort of forgotten about my comment about using this book. I'll try to use some this semester, and see how it goes. Thanks for the reminder!How do the riddles go over when you use them. Do students take to the "fun" format? Or do they get annoyed?
