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Looking for books that could help me enhance my problem solving skills. I'm average in maths, so would prefer something that's not purely maths oriented.

>> No.10282540

>>10282533
>I have a weakness so I'd prefer not to strengthen it

Enjoy never improving in any meaningful way

>> No.10282545

>>10282540
Nice projection.

>> No.10282566

>>10282533
How to Solve It, the book by Polya whose name I forgot, and street-fighting mathematics by Mahajan and Mead.
math, at its core, is about solving problems.

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10282572

>>10282533
Rationality: From AI to Zombies

https://www.readthesequences.com/

>> No.10282661

>>10282533
Do projecteuler problems.

>> No.10282682

>>10282540
>the only problem solving books on the market are in pure math
sad

>> No.10282806

>>10282533
https://4chan-science.wikia.com/wiki/Mathematics#Problem_Solving_and_Heuristics

>> No.10282817

>>10282572
>Eliezer Yudkowsky
>https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eliezer_Yudkowsky
>Harry Potter fan fiction writer
>American transhumanist
>from Berkeley, California
>Libertarian
>Singularitarian
>Cryonicist
>Consequentialist
>Rationality theorist
>Jewish atheist

Fuck off back to >>>/pol/ and >>>/x/ and never return here.

>> No.10282886

>>10282817
You are the only one who mentioned his political leanings ITT, you fucking cunt

>> No.10283136

>>10282817
>Fuck off back to >>>/pol/ and >>>/x/ and never return here.
Not an argument

>> No.10284278

>>10283136
Not an argument