Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic

Tom Tymoczko, Jim Henle, James M. Henle

Key College, 1995 - Computers - 644 pages

A revolutionary, introductory text for courses on modern logic. While the basic rudiments of formal and informal logical are all clearly described here, it also focuses students on the real world, where the discipline of logic adds substance and meaning to all kinds of human discourse. Everything from puzzles, paradoxes, and mathematical proofs, to campaign debate excerpts, government regulations, and cartoons are used to show how logic is put to work by philosophers, mathematicians, advertisers, computer scientists, politicians, and others. As the book alternately discusses, instructs, questions, teases, and challenges, readers will find themselves absorbing the fundamentals of the discipline, becoming fluent in the language of logic, understanding how logic works in the real world, and enjoying logic's ability to entertain, surprise, subvert, and enlighten.

About the author

Henle is affiliated with Smith College.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Sweet Reason: A Field Guide to Modern Logic; Textbooks in Mathematical Sciences
• Authors: Tom Tymoczko, Jim Henle, James M. Henle
• Edition: illustrated, reprint
• Publisher: Key College, 1995
• ISBN: 0387989307, 9780387989303
• Length: 644 pages
• Subjects: Computers / Computer Science; Mathematics / Logic