Recreational mathematicians

Raymond Smullyan

Raymond Merrill Smullyan (/ˈsmʌliən/; May 25, 1919 – February 6, 2017) was an American mathematician, magician, concert pianist, logician, Taoist, and philosopher. Born in Far Rockaway, New York, his first career was stage magic. He earned a BSc from the University of Chicago in 1955 and his PhD from Princeton University in 1959. He is one of many logicians to have studied with Alonzo Church. (Wikipedia).

Raymond Smullyan
Video thumbnail

Jason Rosenhouse - Raymond Smullyan's Mathematics - G4G13 Apr 2018

I give an overview of Smullyan's mathematical research

From playlist G4G13 Videos

Video thumbnail

2015 Distinguished Alumnus - Stanislav Smirnov - 5/16/2015

Stanislav Smirnov (MS '95, PhD '96, Mathematics); Professor of Mathematics, University of Geneva; Director of SwissMAP, National Center for Competence in Research Smirnov is being recognized for his achievements in mathematics, particularly in statistical physics. He produced the first ri

From playlist Talks and Seminars

Video thumbnail

Logic Puzzles From The Tonight Show, 1982

Can you imagine a late night talk show featuring mathematical puzzles? Well back in 1982 the great Johnny Carson interviewed the great Raymond Smullyan, who shared a couple of fun logic puzzles. Can you solve them? Sources Raymond Smullyan on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson https:

From playlist Math Puzzles, Riddles And Brain Teasers

Video thumbnail

Rochelle Kronzek & Raymond Smullyan - Honoring the Late, Great Storyteller of Logic - G4G13 Apr 2018

His math - His magic - His music - His philosophy - His friendship with Martin Gardner.

From playlist Tributes & Commemorations

Video thumbnail

Can you solve the three gods riddle? - Alex Gendler

View full lesson: http://ed.ted.com/lessons/can-you-solve-the-three-gods-riddle-alex-gendler You and your team have crash-landed on an ancient planet. Can you appease the three alien overlords who rule it and get your team safely home? Created by logician Raymond Smullyan, and popularized

From playlist TED-Ed Riddles : Season 1

Video thumbnail

The Lady or the Tiger Puzzle via Truth Tables [Discrete Math Class]

This video is not like my normal uploads. This is a supplemental video from one of my courses that I made in case students had to quarantine. this is a follow up to a my previous video introducing propositional logic (mathematical propositions, logical connectives - "and", "or", and "not",

From playlist Discrete Mathematics Course

Video thumbnail

Can you solve the troll’s paradox riddle? - Dan Finkel

Practice more problem-solving at https://brilliant.org/TedEd/ Solution to bonus riddle: https://brilliant.org/TedEdTrollParadox/ You and your brother have discovered another realm and set off exploring the new wonderful world. Along the way, you see a troll catching creatures in an enormo

From playlist New TED-Ed Originals

Video thumbnail

How To Count Past Infinity

Support Vsauce, your brain, Alzheimer's research, and other YouTube educators by joining THE CURIOSITY BOX: a seasonal delivery of viral science toys made by Vsauce! A portion of all proceeds goes to Alzheimer's research and our Inquisitive Fellowship, a program that gives money and resour

From playlist Knowledge

Video thumbnail

INTERVIEW AT CIRM : MICHAEL ARTIN

Michael ARTIN participated in the "Artin Approximation and Infinite dimensional Geometry" event organized at CIRM in March 2015, which was part of the Jean-Morlet semester held by Herwig Hauser. Michael Artin is an American mathematician and a professor emeritus in the Massachusetts Ins

From playlist Jean-Morlet Chair's guests - Interviews

Video thumbnail

Yakov Zel'dovich and Cosmology - Rashid Sunyaev

Renowned physicist Rashid Sunyaev delivers a talk on the life and work of Yakov Zel'dovich, his longtime collaborator, mentor, and friend, during the launch of the Centre for the Universe at Perimeter Institute on Monday, November 20, 2017. Read more about the Centre here: http://bit.ly/

From playlist Cosmology

Video thumbnail

Fall in love this fall.

This is CS50. By Allison Buchholtz-Au, Chris Thayer, Dan Coffey, Daniel Citron, Ramon Galvan, TJ Barber, and Will VanKoughnett.

From playlist Fall Preview

Video thumbnail

Moshe Kamensky 2/21/14 Part 3

Title: Picard-Vessiot Structures

From playlist Spring 2014

Video thumbnail

38: Complexity & Trees - Richard Buckland UNSW

Searching, best worst and expected case. Binary search and insert - linked lists vs arrays. Trees. Ordered binary trees. 3 interesting books: Puzzle Guide to Godel (Raymond Smullyan), Surely you're joking Mr Feynman (Richard Feynman), Alice/Annotated Alice (Lewis Carrol/Martin Gardin

From playlist CS1: Higher Computing - Richard Buckland UNSW

Video thumbnail

How I Use Simulink

This video I created to Simulink Student Challenge contest.

From playlist Simulink Student Challenge 2012 Entries

Video thumbnail

Knights and Knaves Logic Puzzle using the Biconditional [Discrete Math Class]

This video is not like my normal uploads. This is a supplemental video from one of my courses that I made in case students had to quarantine. this is a follow up to three previous videos introducing propositional logic (mathematical propositions; logical connectives - "and", "or", "not" ,

From playlist Discrete Mathematics Course

Related pages

To Mock a Mockingbird | Alonzo Church | Doxastic logic | Recreational mathematics | Gödel's incompleteness theorems | William Craig (philosopher) | Chess | Coercive logic | Mathematics Genealogy Project | Mathematics | Tarski's undefinability theorem | Rudolf Carnap | Knights and Knaves | Ernest Nagel | Willard Van Orman Quine | Formal system | Martin Gardner | Richard Feynman | Combinatory logic