Book:G. Polya/Induction and Analogy in Mathematics

G. Polya: Induction and Analogy in Mathematics

Published $\text {1954}$, Princeton University Press

Contents

Preface

Hints to the Reader

Chapter I. Induction

Chapter II. Generalization, Specialization, Analogy

Chapter III. Induction in Solid Geometry

Chapter IV. Induction in the Theory of Numbers

Chapter V. Miscellaneous Examples of Induction

Chapter VI. A More General Statement

Chapter VII. Mathematical Induction

Chapter VIII. Maxima and Minima

Chapter IX. Physical Mathematics

Chapter X. The Isoperimetric Problem

Chapter XI. Further Kinds of Plausible Reasons

Final Remark

Solution to Problems

Bibliography

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