Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning
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Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning
George Polya
4 people recommended it in 4 threads, 2018–2023.
What people on Hacker News said
An excellent expansion on Polya's ideas on How to Solve it. While the goal is to seek rigorous proofs, to get there it's powerful to be able to think based on intuition, heuristics,
Instead of How To Solve It, which is organized dictionary–style with short sections on particular named problem solving topics, and is somewhat hard to interpret for novices without guidance, let me recommend Polya’s other two books (each 2 volumes), Mathematical Discovery and Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning.
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