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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