Raymond Smullyan

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author human logician mathematician puzzle creator

Raymond Smullyan was an American logician, mathematician, and puzzle creator renowned for his engaging logic puzzles, recreational mathematics books, and popular expositions of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems.

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	author → human → logician → mathematician → puzzle creator →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1919-05-25 →
dateOfDeath	2017-02-06 →
doctoralAdvisor	Alonzo Church →
educatedAt	Princeton University → University of Chicago →
employer	City University of New York → Indiana University Bloomington → Lehman College → Princeton University → Yeshiva University →
familyName	Smullyan →
fieldOfWork	mathematical logic → metaphysics → philosophy → puzzle design → recreational mathematics →
givenName	Raymond →
influencedBy	Alonzo Church → Kurt Gödel → Ludwig Wittgenstein → Taoist philosophy →
knownFor	Knights and Knaves puzzles → logic puzzles → popular expositions of Gödel’s incompleteness theorems → recreational mathematics →
nativeLanguage	English →
notableWork	5000 B.C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies → A Beginner’s Guide to Mathematical Logic → Forever Undecided → Gödel’s Incompleteness Theorems → Satan, Cantor, and Infinity → The Lady or the Tiger? → The Riddle of Scheherazade → The Tao Is Silent → This Book Needs No Title → To Mock a Mockingbird → What Is the Name of This Book? →
occupation	author → logician → magician → mathematician → university teacher →
placeOfBirth	Far Rockaway, Queens, New York City →
placeOfDeath	Elka Park, New York →
religion	Taoism →
sexOrGender	male →

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Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Raymond Smullyan ("Smullyan") →	familyName
Martin Gardner →	influenced