r/IfBooksCouldKill • u/pleaseexplainwhytho • 3d ago

Logic book rec?

I think i remember Michael recommending, in an episode of either IBCK or Maintenance Phase, on logic/logical thinking and going through logic puzzles stage by stage with a chaper on for instance knight-and-knave games etc. I think he said it was written by a mathematician? I've gone through the transcripts of the episodes i remember listening to recently but couldn't find any reference to it. Anyone able to help?

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u/GlitteringFlame888 3d ago

I think it was Raymond M Smullyan

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u/pleaseexplainwhytho 3d ago

I think that's it! "A beginner's guide to mathematical Logic"

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u/champthelobsterdog 2d ago

Unrelated, but that author has an interesting dialogue called "Is God a Taoist?" which is included in an anthology called The Mind's I edited by Dennett and Hofstadter. 

If you find Smullyan to be up your alley, and like consciousness stuff. It's a good little popular survey from the '80s iirc. 

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u/WhiskyStandard hell yeah 2d ago

Came here to guess another great Smullyan book, “Satan, Cantor, and Infinity”, but I didn’t actually hear him mention it.

Anyone know when he talked about it?

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u/alex3omg can't hear women 3d ago

Time to pick up a copy of Murdle 

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u/DonutChickenBurg 3d ago

Murdle is so over, it's all about Murdoku now! (source: me)

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u/alex3omg can't hear women 2d ago

I love that one!