Raymond Smullyan

American mathematician.

Born May 25th, 1919 in Far Rockaway. [ref]

Died February 6th, 2017 at 97 years old in Hudson. [ref]

Occupations
chess composer, computer scientist, magician, mathematician, philosopher, pianist, university teacher
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Life is so beautiful that death has fallen in love with it, a jealous, possessive love that grabs at what it can. But life leaps over oblivion lightly, losing only a thing or two of no importance, and gloom is just a passing shadow of a cloud. Yann Martel