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How to Solve It
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How to Solve It

A New Aspect of Mathematical Method
BookPaperback
Ranking16669inMathematik
CHF29.90

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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.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-691-16407-6
Product TypeBook
BindingPaperback
Publication countryUnited States
Publishing date27/10/2014
SeriesPrinceton Science Library
Pages288 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 140 mm, Height 216 mm, Thickness 25 mm
Weight272 g
Illustrations31 b/w illus.
Article no.19733452
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.16309096
Product groupMathematik
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Georg(e) Pólya, born in Budapest, December 13, 1887. Georg(e) Pólya initially studied law, then languages and literature in Budapest. He came to mathematics in order to understand philosophy, but the subject of his doctorate in 1912 was in probability theory and he promptly abandoned philosophy. After a year in Göttingen and a short stay in Paris, he received an appointment at the ETH in Zürich. His research was multi-faceted, ranging from series, probability, number theory and combinatorics to astronomy and voting systems. Some of his deepest work was on entire functions. He also worked in conformal mappings, potential theory, boundary value problems, and isoperimetric problems in mathematical physics, as well as heuristics late in his career. When Pólya left Europe in 1940, he first went to Brown University, then two years later to Stanford, where he remained until his death on September 7, 1985.