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How to Solve It (1945) is a small volume by mathematician George Pólya, describing methods of problem solving. [ 1 ] This book has remained in print continually since 1945.
George Pólya (/ ˈ p oʊ l j ə /; Hungarian: Pólya György, pronounced [ˈpoːjɒ ˈɟørɟ]; December 13, 1887 – September 7, 1985) was a Hungarian-American mathematician.He was a professor of mathematics from 1914 to 1940 at ETH Zürich and from 1940 to 1953 at Stanford University.
[4]: 23–24 The pair held practice sessions, in which the problems were put to university students and worked through as a class (with some of the representative problems solved by the teacher, and the harder problems set as homework). They went through portions of the book at a rate of about one chapter a semester.
Pages in category "Princeton University Press books" ... 1945–1960; The Collected Works of C. G. Jung; ... How to Solve It; I.
This is apparently a reference to the second edition of How to Solve It (©1957 G. Polya). I do not know how significantly it differs from the first edition (©1945 Princeton University Press), but I can hardly imagine these ideas were not present in both.
Polya begins Volume I with a discussion on induction, not mathematical induction, but as a way of guessing new results.He shows how the chance observations of a few results of the form 4 = 2 + 2, 6 = 3 + 3, 8 = 3 + 5, 10 = 3 + 7, etc., may prompt a sharp mind to formulate the conjecture that every even number greater than 4 can be represented as the sum of two odd prime numbers.
Princeton University Press is an independent publisher with close connections to Princeton University. Its mission is to disseminate scholarship within academia and society at large. The press was founded by Whitney Darrow, with the financial support of Charles Scribner , as a printing press to serve the Princeton community in 1905. [ 2 ]
Von Neumann's habilitation was completed on December 13, 1927, and he began to give lectures as a Privatdozent at the University of Berlin in 1928. [46] He was the youngest person elected Privatdozent in the university's history. [47] He began writing nearly one major mathematics paper per month. [48]