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Editorial Reviews Review Any young person seeking a career in the sciences would do well to ponder this important contribution to the teacher's art. Review Any young person seeking a career in the sciences would do well to ponder this important contribution to the teacher's art. Book Description A perennial bestseller by eminent mathematician G. Polya, How to Solve It will show anyone in any field how to think straight. In lucid and appealing prose, Polya reveals how the mathematical method of demonstrating a proof or finding an unknown can be of help in attacking any problem that can be "reasoned" out--from building a bridge to winning a game of anagrams. Generations of readers have relished Polya's deft--indeed, brilliant--instructions on stripping away irrelevancies and going straight to the heart of the problem. All Customer Reviews Average Customer Review:  Write an online review and share your thoughts with other customers. 4 of 4 people found the following review helpful:
This book beautifully explains the process of problem-solving. It starts from simple problems, lays down the fundamentals and leads to more complex problems. One of the gems is the simple formula: It is also a good reference to teach kids how to approach problems. Buy it and it will be a very handy reference.
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I'm glad I have discovered an excellent book on problem solving which would prove indispensable in my programming career. Other programming books mainly demonstrate features of an OS or a computer language but this book goes into the heart of the computer science which is problem solving.
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Polya's consideration of the Various Approaches to problem solving hangs on several key structural bands that take the forms of a teacher's questions: Do you know any related problem? Do you know an analogous problem? [Parallelograms are considered.] Here is a problem related to yours and solved before. Can you use it? Should you introduce some auxiliary element in order to make its use possible? These ring true to this recently mustered parental pedantic. Polya's actual treatise is just 30 pages; the associated `dictionary' definitions section is quite extended, actually, making up some 200 pages. He describes going back to first principles in problem solving. January 1, 2003 is a day perhaps to remember such back tracking is sometimes in order.
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Buy it!, April 27, 2004 
For math thinkers maybe, July 19, 2003