Solving Mathematical Problems: A personal perspective
Terence Tao
Deakin University Press, Geelong, Vic.: 1992
Hardcover. 85 pages. ISBN 0-7300-1365-0
This first edition is unfortunately completely out of print (the entire press no longer exists). It discusses various Olympiad level problems and how one can go about trying to solve them. Details on the second edition can be found here.
Here is the cover picture for the first edition, which was taken when I was sixteen:
[Update, Jul 31: bad link fixed.]
[Update, Jan 24: fixed for real now, hopefully.]
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31 July, 2007 at 8:37 am
Anonymous
404 on the link to the second edition.
24 January, 2008 at 2:02 pm
Anonymous
still 404
24 January, 2008 at 2:35 pm
Terence Tao
Thanks for the correction (which I hope is going to stick this time…)
6 November, 2008 at 4:17 am
Anonymous
The proof in solution of problem 5.2(*) is not complete.
Y.N. Aliyev
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24 February, 2010 at 10:22 am
VIlyanur
Very nice book.
Interesting problems.
16 March, 2010 at 10:58 am
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29 October, 2011 at 2:00 am
Jeanjacques
Very nice book, the first I read on things like IMO problems, but with a real effort of the author to have the reader improved (and not just a collection of problems in a first part, and solutions falling from sky in the second part).
PS : problem 2.3 has a simple solution : we’re just looking at the integer a,b’s such that b/a+a/b is integer again, which is direct.
12 December, 2011 at 2:36 pm
Kufihr
Terence,
You mean you don’t even have a copy–your own original manuscript of the first edition– that you could scan and post??
Just curious,
Thanks
20 July, 2012 at 9:19 pm
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