mike | Shared With: Everyone - Dec 22 2006 | books, math, problem solving, polya, puzzles
The classic problem solving text - Microsoft gave us a copy of this book when we first joined in 1983!
Quoted: Amazon.com: How to Solve It: A New Aspect of Mathematical Method (Princeton Science Library): Books: G. Polya by G. Polya
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 28 2005 | Math, Gambling, books
A fun account of a group of chaos enthusiasts that set out to build a wearable computer to beat the game of roulette.
Quoted: Amazon.com: The Eudaemonic Pie: Books by Thomas A. Bass
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 28 2005 | Math, books
I've just started reading this textbook (June '03). I've been prompted back into mathematics thinking about some combinatorial problems, mostly relating to games (like the card game Set). The text is dense, so Darrell Plank and I have decided to study sections of the book together.
Quoted: Amazon.com: A Course in Combinatorics: Books by J. H. van Lint,R. M. Wilson
- mike | Shared With: Everyone - Nov 28 2005 | Math, books
Techniques for solving problems dealing with series, recurrences, combinatorics. A great mixture of practical techniques for solving problems that seem to come up in computer-oriented problems.
Quoted: Amazon.com: Concrete Mathematics: A Foundation for Computer Science (2nd Edition): Books by Ronald L. Graham,Donald E. Knuth,Oren Patashnik
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