Jedním z Smullyan na učitele na univerzitě v Chicagu byl Rudolf Carnap, slavný logik a filozof na Novopozitivismus. Ten nyní doporučil Smullyan pro matematiku post v Dartmouth College, svobodných umění škola v Hannoveru, New Hampshire. Smullyan nemá žádný formální kvalifikaci v tuto chvíli ale bylo již pracuje na matematický výzkum pro budoucí publikace.
One of Smullyan's teachers at the University of Chicago had been Rudolf Carnap, the famous logician and philosopher of Logical Positivism. He now recommended Smullyan for a mathematics post at Dartmouth College, the liberal arts college in Hanover, New Hampshire. Smullyan had no formal qualifications at this time but was already working on mathematical research for future publications.