Mathematics and plausible reasoning
First publication date: 1954
Original title: Mathematics and plausible reasoning
Original language: English
Main subject: problem solving
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Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning is a two-volume book by the mathematician George Pólya describing various methods for being a good guesser of new mathematical results. In the Preface to Volume 1 of the book Pólya exhorts all interested students of mathematics thus: "Certainly, let us learn proving, but also let us learn guessing." P. R. Halmos reviewing the book summarised the central thesis of the book thus: ". . . a good guess is as important as a good proof." Source: Wikipedia (en)
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1Mathematics and plausible reasoning
Induction and analogy in mathematicsDate of publication: 1954Publisher: Princeton University Press, Oxford University Press
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