Table of Contents

Part I - Logic Puzzles
1: The Prize and Other Puzzles
2: The Absentminded Logician
3: The Barber of Seville
4: The Mystery of the Photograph
Part II - Knights, Knaves, and the Fountain of Youth
5: Some Unusual Knights and Knaves
6: Day-Knights and Night Knights
7: Gods, Demons, and Mortals
8: In Search of the Fountain of Youth
Part III - To Mock a Mockingbird
9: To Mock a Mockingbird
10: s There a Sage Bird
11: Birds Galore
12: Mockingbirds, Warblers, and Starlings
13: A Gallery of Sage Birds
Part IV - Singing Birds
14: Curry's Lively Bird Forest
15: Russell's Forrest
16: The Forest Without a Name
17: Godel's Forest
Part V - The Master Forest
18: The Master Forest
19: Aristocratic Birds
20: Craig's Discovery
Part VI - The Grand Question
21: The Fixed Point Principle
22: A Glimpse into Infinity
23: Logical Birds
24: Birds That Can Do Arithmetic
25: Is There an Ideal Bird
Epilogue
Who's Who Among the Birds

About the Author

Raymond Smullyan, a well-known mathematician and logician and the author of many books, is Oscar Ewing Professor of Philosophy at Indiana University and Professor Emeritus of the City University of New York-Lehman College and Graduate Center.