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Goals for the book series
- • Self-learn: Analysis, problem solving, decision making, skills
- • Make learning problem solving,
- o A fun activity and not a chore
- o Easy to understand, for anyone with high school education
- o Memorable, to remember how to use the tools in real life situations
- • Books I – IV use puzzles and games to make a drab subject fun
- • Books V – VII apply learning from puzzles and games, to real world problems
Cost of the books
- • Around USD 7 per book (print on demand)
- • Around USD 5 per book (offset printing, if demand exists)
- • Shipping, at actual cost
Intended Audience
- • Mature individuals prepared to invest time and effort to learn problem solving
- • Anyone with basic highschool education
- • College students
- • STEM (Science, Technical, Engineering, Mathematics) students
- • NEET's (Not in Education, Employment, Training)
- • Employed individuals
These are not 'puzzle' books!
- • These books focus on problem solving. Period.
- • Puzzles and games are merely tools to help on your problem solving quest
- • A puzzle solver would rush to find any kind of 'answer'
- • The problem solver will find all solutions; apply analysis and insight to the next problem
The books are difficult to understand!
- • This is not a 'weekend' book, or a book to skim through for nuggets of information
- • Book I starts simple, with problems children solve! But the analysis is no child's play
- • The expert problem solver can skip Book I, the novice is advised to start at the beginning
- • Trying out the problems and understanding them will take time and effort
- • The problems are easy to understand, with basic high school education
- • Problems gradually get complex (not difficult!) as you progress on the problem solving pathway
- • Skip the initial problems, and you may get lost in later analysis
- • Follow the Problem Solving Pathway, to benefit from the insight it offers!
More about the book series
- • Proper analysis is 90+% of your problem solved
- • Start off wrong and you waste time correcting a half-baked solution
- • Get lucky and you may not find the optimal solution
- • Get lazy and you may not discover all possible solutions
- • A series of books not for the faint-hearted, the casual reader, the 'learn in 24 hours' enthusiast.
- • Even simple puzzles have a lot of analysis, when studied as problems to be solved!
Who am I?
- • A graduate in Electronics and Information Management, I live in Mumbai, India
- • Worked in IT infrastructure and operations
- • Worked in pre-publishing large print books for learning and vision challenged individuals
- • Worked in typesetting of mathematical books and financial booklets for offset printing
- • Freelance typesetter for mathematical content (books, articles, papers, slideshows)
- o LaTeX software used for typesetting all content, illustrating all diagrams and figures
- o Since July 2015, working with professors at Massachusetts Institute of Technology
- o Typeset and illustrated ‘Introduction to Linear Algebra, 5th Edition’ (ISBN 9780980232776)
- o Typesetting and illustrating ‘Linear Algebra and Learning from Data (available 2018)
When will the books be available?
- • Books I & II are ready!
- • They will be made available by the 'Print On Demand' model
- • Please suggest PoD organizations to deliver books worldwide
The Pathway!