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ALICE IN PUZZLE-LAND
Born in New York City, Raymond Smullyan received his M.S.from the University of Chicago and his Ph.D. from PrincetonUniversity. He has taught at Dartmouth and Princeton and iscurrently on the faculty of Lehman College in New York. Inaddition to being a professor of mathematical logic, he has per-formed as a professional magician. His other books are
Theoryof Formal Systems, First-Order Logic, The Tao Is Silent, What Is the Name of This Book?, This Book Needs No Title, TheChess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes, The Chess Mysteries of the Arabian Knights,
and
The Lady or the Tiger?.
Mr. Smullyanhas also contributed to collective works on mathematics and haswritten for
Scientific American
and other magazines.
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