As I mentioned in my previous post, I made an impulse purchase of 7 books by Raymond Smullyan from Amazon. Six of them arrived today, the remaining one book is not published yet. Here is the list of books that came today:

• Some Interesting Memories: A Paradoxical Life
• The Magic Garden of George B. And Other Logic Puzzles
• A Spiritual Journey: Reflections on the Philosophy of Religion, A Transcendental Journey, and Cosmic Consciousness Redux
• Rambles Through My Library
• Satan, Cantor and Infinity: Mind-Boggling Puzzles
• King Arthur in Search of His Dog and Other Curious Puzzles
  

The remaining book is Set Theory and the Continuum Problem.

Raymond Smullyan is a remarkable man. He is a magician, mathematician, logician, concert pianist, philosopher and world renowned author of over 20 books. Some Interesting Memories: A Paradoxical Life is his autobiography and there is a film about him called This Film Needs No Title created by documentary filmmaker Tao Ruspoli. Smullyan is 90 years old now and lives a “retired life” in the Catskill Mountains in NY.

If you haven’t read any books by Smullyan I recommend that you get a couple of them from the library and give it a try. I am sure you won’t regret it.