Raymond Smullyan
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Person · Open Library
- Works
- 13
Top works
- 5000 B.C and other philosophical fantasies
- This Book Needs No Title
- Five Thousand B. C. and Other Philosophical Fantasies
- Logical Labyrinths
- Reflections
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 60
- Total plays
- 657
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Initial sequencing and analysis of the human genome
· 2001 · cited 18,616x
- Isolation of biologically active ribonucleic acid from sources enriched in ribonuclease
· 1979 · cited 14,791x
- Observation of Gravitational Waves from a Binary Black Hole Merger
· 2016 · cited 11,698x
- GENEPOP (Version 1.2): Population Genetics Software for Exact Tests and Ecumenicism
· 1995 · cited 11,311x
- The Sequence of the Human Genome
· 2001 · cited 10,201x
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Quotes
- “I have free will, but not of my own choice. I have never freely chosen to have free will. I have to have free will, whether I like it or not!”
- “If it is really true that you cannot resist them, then you are not sinning of your own free will and hence (at least according to me) not sinning at all.”
- “There is nothing like a naturalistic orientation to dispel all these morbid thoughts of "sin" and "free will" and "moral responsibility."”
- “Medical opinions differed as to the cause of this "humor" disease.”
- “From what little was known about the subject, insincerity itself was regarded as another form of psychosis but one which was exceedingly rare.”
- “Humor could not flourish in a wholly serious and rational atmosphere.”
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Key facts
- Born
- Raymond Merrill Smullyan , ( 1919-05-25 ) May 25, 1919, Far Rockaway , New York, U.S.
- Died
- February 6, 2017 (2017-02-06) (aged 97), Hudson, New York , U.S.
- Citizenship
- American
- Alma mater
- University of Chicago , Princeton University (PhD)
- Spouse
- Blanche
- Fields
- Logic
- Institutions
- Dartmouth College , Princeton University , Yeshiva University , Lehman College , City University of New York , Indiana University
- Thesis
- Theory of Formal Systems (1959)
- Doctoral advisor
- Alonzo Church
- Doctoral students
- Melvin Fitting Henry Pogorzelski
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Raymond
- Gender
- male
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Far Rockaway
- Place of death
- Hudson
- Occupation
- chess composer
- Educated at
- University of Chicago
- Employer
- Dartmouth College
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Doctoral advisor
- Alonzo Church
- Field of work
- logic
- Instrument
- piano
- Official website
- raymondsmullyan.com
- Image
- Smullyan-01.png
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Encyclopedic overview
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, Smullyan's first career choice was in stage magic. He earned a BSc from the University of Chicago in 1955 and his PhD from Princeton University in 1959. Smullyan is one of many logicians to have studied with Alonzo Church.
Excerpted from Wikipedia’s “Raymond Smullyan” article, available under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence.