Mathematics and Plausible Reasoning: Volume II Patterns of Plausible Inference

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EAN/UPC/ISBN Code 9780691025100, 9780691025100

Author

Pages 236

Year of production 1992

Here the author of How to Solve It explains how to become a "good guesser." Marked by G. Polya"s simple, energetic prose and use of clever examples from a wide range of human activities, this two-volume work explores techniques of guessing, inductive reasoning, and reasoning by analogy, and the role they play in the most rigorous of deductive disciplines.