A collection of practical lessons that demonstrates how the true mathematician learns to draw unexpected analogies, tackle problems from unusual angles, and extract information from the data.

By examining the seven essential aspects of Da Vinci's way of thinking, this guidebook gives you the tools you need to enhance aptitude in every area of your life. Numerous exercises, anecdotes and illustrations help you master these techniques to create a personal and professional renaissance of your very own.

Robert F Kennedy challenged us to dream of things that never were and say, Why not? This book presents a primer for fresh business thinking, and for problem solving with a purpose. It also offers simple techniques for generating ingenious solutions to existing problems, and for applying existing solutions to new problems.

Helps businessmen to develop techniques of creative thinking in the boardroom.

A practical anthology of some of the elementary problems in different branches of mathematics. It teaches the important principles and broad strategies for coping with the experience of solving problems. It is suitable for students preparing for the Putnam exam.

A textbook of creativity. It shows how the habit of lateral thinking can be encouraged and new ideas generated.

This title offers a sound, methodical approach for resolving problems based on the IDEAL (Identify, Define, Explore, Act, Look) model. The book suggests new strategies for subjects including: enhancing creativity; improving memory and communicating more effectively with a wider range of people.

Provides comprehensive, current, and correct information on problem solving using modern heuristics. It covers classic methods of optimisation, including dynamic programming, the simplex method, and gradient techniques, as well as recent innovations such as simulated annealing, tabu search, and evolutionary computation.

George and Jess live on their own little islands in the middle of a huge ocean. They really want to meet up and share yummy milkshakes and cake but there's one big problem - sharks. Will George and Jess manage to outwit the greedy sharks and make it across the water to be together?

When the driver leaves the bus temporarily, he gives the reader just one instruction: Don't let the pigeon drive the bus! But, boy, that pigeon tries every trick in the book to get in that driving seat: he whines, wheedles, fibs and flatters. Will you let him drive? Told entirely in speech bubbles, this is a brilliantly original book.

A Handbook of Creative-Thinking Techniques.

Second edition.

Suitable for trainers and participants at various levels, including IMO, Tournament of the Towns, and noncalculus parts of the Putnam Competition, this title offers a collection of problems from major national and international mathematical competitions for high school students.

The rattletrap car doesn't go fast and it doesn't go far - and when a family set off to the lake in it one hot day, it soon starts to fall apart. A beach ball replaces the wheel, a surfboard the floor and a thermos of fizz the petrol tank, all stuck on with chocolate fudge delight!

Three prominent American therapists detail their theories and strategies for promoting human change and dealing with related psychological problems.

Intuition is not some magical property that arises unbidden from the depths of our mind. This book shows us how we can hone our instinctive ability to know in an instant, helping us to bring out the best in our thinking and become better decision-makers in our homes, offices and in everyday life.

A gripping novel in which Alex Rogo fights to save his factory before it is closed by corporate HQ, with hundreds of job losses. The story contains a serious message for all managers in industry and explains the ideas which underline the Theory of Constraints (TOC).

Enables anyone with basic math and science skills to estimate virtually anything - quickly - using plausible assumptions and elementary arithmetic. This book presents an array of estimation problems that range from devilishly simple to quite sophisticated and from real-world concerns to silly ones.

Gerald is careful. Piggie is not. Piggie cannot help smiling. Gerald can. Gerald worries so that Piggie does not have to. Gerald and Piggie are best friends. Gerald discovers that there is something worse than a bird on your head - two birds on your head! Can Piggie help her best friend?

Thinking Mathematically unfolds the processes which lie at the heart of mathematics. It demonstrates how to encourage, develop, and foster the processes which seem to come naturally to mathematicians.