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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George Pólya
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How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

by George Pólya

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I'm not sure exactly what you're after, but Polya's classic How to Solve It is an excellent source of tips and tricks of problem solving. It presents principles of reasoning that are essential for everyone -- from freshmen to researchers.

How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method by George Polya

... -- and read Whitehead, Russell, Wittgenstein and Hampshire Csikszentmihalyi would fit into senior lab. Polya's How to Solve it fits in the general tradition dating back to Bacon and Descartes on the search for a general 'method' for discovering truth. (Maybe back to Aristotle)'s ...

Flow by M. Csikszentmihalyi, The Ethics by Spinoza, How to Solve it by G. Polya, Hesiod, more by Francis Bacon, the British Philosophers Whitehead, Russell and Stuart Hampshire more mathematics but above all, I'd take Homer at a much slower pace: I ...

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