A Compendium of Logic Puzzles
Marcel Danesi
University of Toronto
This book is a collection of 200 puzzles intended to provide challenges in logical thinking. The puzzles engage the reader in drawing conclusions from given information, establishing connections among facts in statements, or else inferring what elements are related to each other. No special background knowledge is required, other than elementary arithmetic for some of the puzzles. The puzzles are spread over the ten chapters with answers at the back. Each chapter contains a specific type of puzzle, and includes an introductory part explaining and illustrating what is involved in solving the puzzles presented in the chapter. This book can be used by beginners as a self-study manual in logical thinking that will give them plenty of exposure to its basic principles and techniques via puzzle-solving, or by inveterate puzzle-solver as a collection of logic puzzles, which may provide some challenge to such a reader.
ISBN 9783962060558. lincom pocket 34. 186 pp. 2024.
