Art and Craft of Mathematical Problem Solving

Let an award-winning professor, and former champion “mathlete” demonstrate how solving math problems can be fun by teaching techniques you can use in many aspects of life.

Syllabus

01: Problems versus Exercises
02: Strategies and Tactics
03: The Problem Solver's Mind-Set
04: Searching for Patterns
05: Closing the Deal-Proofs and Tools
06: Pictures, Recasting, and Points of View
07: The Great Simplifier-Parity
08: The Great Unifier-Symmetry
09: Symmetry Wins Games!
10: Contemplate Extreme Values
11: The Culture of Problem Solving
12: Recasting Integers Geometrically
13: Recasting Integers with Counting and Series
14: Things in Categories-The Pigeonhole Tactic
15: The Greatest Unifier of All-Invariants
16: Squarer Is Better-Optimizing 3s and 2s
17: Using Physical Intuition-and Imagination
18: Geometry and the Transformation Tactic
19: Building from Simple to Complex with Induction
20: Induction on a Grand Scale
21: Recasting Numbers as Polynomials-Weird Dice
22: A Relentless Tactic Solves a Very Hard Problem
23: Genius and Conway's Infinite Checkers Problem
24: How versus Why-The Final Frontier
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Paul Zeitz

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