Satan, Cantor, and Infinity

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"Satan, Cantor, and Infinity" is a popular logic and mathematics book by Raymond Smullyan that presents puzzles and paradoxes through playful dialogues and stories.

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instanceOf book
logic puzzle book
mathematics popularization book
author Raymond Smullyan
educationalObjective explain set-theoretic ideas
explore self-referential paradoxes
illustrate logical reasoning
introduce concepts of infinity
present computability concepts
genre logic puzzles
philosophical puzzles
recreational mathematics
hasCharacter Iblis
surface form: Satan

logicians
mathematicians
hasPart dialogue sequences
expository interludes
puzzle collections
language English
mainSubject Gödel’s incompleteness theorems
Turing machine
surface form: Turing machines

computability theory
diagonalization
infinity
logic
mathematics
paradoxes
self-reference
set theory
narrativeForm dialogue
short stories
notableFor accessible treatment of advanced logic topics
combining fiction with mathematical exposition
popularizing ideas about infinity
relatedWorkByAuthor The Lady or the Tiger?
To Mock a Mockingbird
What Is the Name of This Book?
style didactic
humorous
playful
targetAudience general readers
puzzle enthusiasts
students of logic
usesDevice logical puzzles
paradoxes
thought experiments

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Raymond Smullyan notableWork Satan, Cantor, and Infinity