Author: Raymond M. Smullyan
Publisher: AK Peters
Keywords: labyrinths, logical
Number of Pages: 275
Published: 2009-01-15
List price: $49.00
ISBN-10: 1568814437
ISBN-13: 9781568814438

This book features a unique approach to the teaching of mathematical logic by putting it in the context of the puzzles and paradoxes of common language and rational thought. It serves as a bridge from the author’s puzzle books to his technical writing in the fascinating field of mathematical logic. Using the logic of lying and truth-telling, the author introduces the readers to informal reasoning preparing them for the formal study of symbolic logic, from propositional logic to first-order logic, a subject that has many important applications in philosophy, mathematics, and computer scie

Author: Walter Shepherd
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: labyrinths, mazes, book
Number of Pages: 112
Published: 1973-07-05
List price: $6.95
ISBN-10: 0486229513
ISBN-13: 9780486229515

Classical, solid, and ripple mazes; short path and avoidance labyrinths; more—50 mazes and labyrinths in all. Full solutions.

Author: W. H. Matthews
Publisher: Kessinger Publishing, LLC
Keywords: development, history, labyrinths, mazes
Number of Pages: 320
Published: 2003-03-31
List price: $30.95
ISBN-10: 0766144682
ISBN-13: 9780766144682

1922. Contents: introduction; Egyptian labyrinth; Cretan labyrinth; Etruscan or Italian labyrinth; labyrinth in ancient art; church labyrinth; turf labyrinth; origin of turf mazes; floral labyrinth and the dwarf shrub maze; topiary labyrinth or hedge maze; stone labyrinth and rock engravings; dance or game of Troy; bower of "Fair Rosamond"; maze etymology; labyrinth design and the solution of mazes; labyrinth in literature; miscellaneous and conclusion. Wonderfully illustrated.

Author: Adrian Fisher
Publisher: Shire
Keywords: library, shire, labyrinths, mazes
Number of Pages: 56
Published: 2008-03-04
List price: $18.00
ISBN-10: 074780561X
ISBN-13: 9780747805618

Mazes and labyrinths in various forms have been a preoccupation of mankind for thousands of years. This text traces the history of mazes worldwide from the earliest known examples, and then describes those which have been created in Britain’s gardens, parks and landscape.

Author: W.H. Starr Matthews
Publisher: Forgotten Books
Keywords: books, forgotten, labyrinths, mazes
Number of Pages: 238
Published: 2008-05-06
List price: $8.84
ISBN-10: 1605067997
ISBN-13: 9781605067995

The terms "maze" and "labyrinth" are no longer considered interchangeable. Unlike a maze, which is an entertaining puzzle with many dead ends, a labyrinth is unicursal: it consists of one path which twists and turns but leads inevitably to the centre. In some turf labyrinths, the groove cut in the turf is the path to be walked (sometimes marked with bricks or gravel); more commonly the turf itself forms the raised path which is marked out by shallow channels excavated between its twists and turns.The labyrinth especially has quite an esoteric significance, as it can represent a journey through

Author: Roy Sorensen
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Keywords: labyrinths, mind, philosophy, paradox, history, brief
Number of Pages: 416
Published: 2003-12-04
List price: $26.00
ISBN-10: 0195159039
ISBN-13: 9780195159035

Can God create a stone too heavy for him to lift? Can time have a beginning? Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Riddles, paradoxes, conundrums--for millennia the human mind has found such knotty logical problems both perplexing and irresistible. Now Roy Sorensen offers the first narrative history of paradoxes, a fascinating and eye-opening account that extends from the ancient Greeks, through the Middle Ages, the Enlightenment, and into the twentieth century. When Augustine asked what God was doing before He made the world, he was told: "Preparing hell for people who ask questions

Author: Walter Shepherd
Publisher: Dover Publications
Keywords: puzzles, book, labyrinths, mazes
Number of Pages: 122
Published: 1961-06-01
List price: $5.95
ISBN-10: 0486207315
ISBN-13: 9780486207315

50 amusements using principle of maze, most based on story situations. Classical mazes, 3-D, Moebius-strip mazes, more. Quite unusual. 84 illustrations.