How To Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method

How To Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method Book Description

This book is addressed to teachers of mathematics as well as to students studying mathematics. The ~teacher~ may be a high school teacher, or a college instructor, or anyone interested in the technique of teaching mathematics. The ~student~ may be a high school student, or a college student, or anyone else who is studying mathematics. The book endeavours to convince readers that mathematics, besides being a necessary avenue to engineering professions and scientific knowledge, may be fun and may also open up new vistas of mental activity. A teacher has the responsibility to challenge the curiosty of his students, instill some interest for problems into their minds, and give them plenty of opportunity for practice. A student having tasted the success in mathematics will not forget it easily and there is a good chance that mathematics will become something for him: a hobby, or a tool of his profession, or his profession, or a great ambition.
The late G. Polya (1887-1985), an eminent mathematician, was led to write the present book with the hope that it would be useful to teachers who wish to develop their students~ ability to solve problems, and to students who are keen on developing their own abilities. The author emphasizes that it is important to understand not only the solution of a problem but also the motives and procedures of the solution. The book concentrates on presenting a methodology for study of the methods of solution of mathematical problems with a view to motivating students to develop their ability to solve such problems by themselves.
The line of thinking evolved in the book will prove to be of immense benefit to students and teachers of mathematics at all levels. Generations of readers have relished the author~s deft-indeed, brilliant-approach to stripping away irrelevancies and going straight to the heart of the problem, making this book a perennial best-seller. It should interest anybody in any field desirous of understanding the ways and means, the motives and procedures underlying the discovery of the solution.

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