Raymond Smullyan, Puzzle-Creating Logician, Dies at 97

[JSngry]

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/02/11/us/raymond-smullyan-dead-puzzle-creator.html?emc=edit_th_20170212&nl=todaysheadlines&nlid=25913738

“Why should I worry about dying? It’s not going to happen in my lifetime!”

[T.D.]

RIP. Sad to hear, though he certainly had a long run.

I have and enjoy two of his books: Chess Mysteries of Sherlock Holmes (retrograde chess analysis) and The Riddle of Scheherazade... (various puzzles).

[danasgoodstuff]

He wrote a book I used to own, but never read all of, about (and not about?) Goeddle's therum....

[ejp626]

I've never read any of his books, but back in the 1980s he had an occasional column at the back of Discover Magazine, which is where I was first introduced to his liars and truth tellers and other logic puzzlers.  I think Martin Gardner inherited the space, or they traded off.  That was a long time ago...