A stranded Nazi soldier encounters a strange cave… and a most mysterious man of logic…
Stories for 'Logic'
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An earthman captured by aliens outwits them by tangling them up in self-referential paradoxes of logic while throwing in Zeno’s paradox for good measure… -
A magical tale about a planet where mathematics and mathematical thought can neutralize the harmful spells of wizards… -
An unknown, abstract piece of information—which could be stored on tape, transmitted over a telephone line, displayed on a screen, and so forth - known as “the Riddle,” induces catatonic state in readers, an illness dubbed “the Riddle coma.” All evidence seems consistent with the once-bizarre hypothesis that any human who encountered this information lapsed into an apparently irreversible freezing of the mind... -
A story of the out-of-body experiences of a mathematician working on the Continuum Hypothesis. -
A fable about a frog and a mouse battle, to indicate a fight between mathematicians Hilbert and Brouwer. -
A short story involving Einstein, Morgenstern, and Godel, where Godel finds a logical flaw in the OS constitution when applying for citizenship. -
A clever fictional story about how the mathematician Cantor outwits a dragon that imposes conditions on his ascension to heaven... -
Genesis from the Bible and the Nasadiya Sukta from the Rig Veda are cleverly rewritten to describe a mathematical God and the origin of mathematics.