Jason Rosenhouse

A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in recreation, mathematics, and philosophy. Logic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since. Games like Sudoku and Mastermind are fun and engrossing recreational activities, but they also share deep foundations in mathematical logic and are...

A lively and engaging look at logic puzzles and their role in recreation, mathematics, and philosophy. Logic puzzles were first introduced to the public by Lewis Carroll in the late nineteenth century and have been popular ever since. Games like Sudoku and Mastermind are fun and engrossing recreational activities, but they also share deep foundations in mathematical logic and are...