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Raymond Smullyan [1]

Raymond Merrill Smullyan, (May 25, 1919 - February 6, 2017 [2])
was an American mathematician, logician, philosopher, magician, pianist, and professor of Philosophy at Indiana University Bloomington. He held a Ph.D. in mathematics on the theory of formal systems from Princeton University under advisor Alonzo Church [3]. Smullyan was author of fourteen books and of numerous research articles on the topics of mathematical logic, first-order logic, set theory, theory of computable functions, recreational mathematics, mathematical games and puzzles, retrograde chess problems, and Eastern philosophy. He has been a contributor to Scientific American [4].

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Selected Publications

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External Links

Smullyan

A Mathematical Mystery Tour

featuring Jean Dieudonné, Michael Atiyah, Greg Moore, Paul Erdős, René Thom, Raymond Smullyan, and Ivor Grattan-Guinness - White Knight at 42:25
  1. Proof Beyond Doubt 5:06
    1. Proof 5:45
    2. Euclid's theorem 6:58
    3. Are there infinitely many twin primes? 7:25
    4. Goldbach's conjecture 7:50
    5. Mertens conjecture 8:17
    6. Fermat's Last Theorem 9:10
    7. Erdős' problems 12:39
  2. The Foundations of Mathematics 13:21
    1. Chinese mathematics 13:25
    2. Egyptian mathematics 13:42
    3. Euclid's Elements 15:00
    4. Parallel postulate 16:04
    5. Non-Euclidean geometry 16:10
    6. Hypercube 16:24
    7. Klein bottle 17:00
  3. Discovery or Invention 19:21
    1. Platonism 19:49
    2. Pythagorean theorem 19:57
    3. Golden rectangle 20:48
  4. A Question of Infinity 24:20
    1. Infinity 24:20
    2. Pi 24:50
    3. Mersenne prime 26:36
    4. Countable set 27:58
    5. Uncountable set 30:00
    6. Aleph number 30:50
  5. Cracks in the Foundation 32:06
    1. Mathematical logic 32:06
    2. Russell's paradox 32:32
    3. Principia Mathematica 36:26
  6. Back to Basics 38:32
    1. Bourbaki Group 38:40
    2. Hilbert's program 41:25
    3. White Knight 42:25
  7. The Uncertain Future 44:46
    1. Gödel's incompleteness theorems 44:52
    2. Continuum hypothesis 46:30
    3. Four color theorem 46:38
    4. Computer-assisted proof 50:04

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