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The Culture of Problem Solving

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Section 1: Course Curriculum24 videos

Strategies and Tactics

1h 30m

The Problem Solver's Mind-Set

1h 30m

Problems versus Exercises

1h 30m

Searching for Patterns

1h 30m

Closing the Deal—Proofs and Tools

1h 30m

The Great Unifier—Symmetry

1h 30m

Pictures, Recasting, and Points of View

1h 30m

The Great Simplifier—Parity

1h 30m

Contemplate Extreme Values

1h 30m

The Culture of Problem Solving

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Symmetry Wins Games!

1h 30m

Recasting Integers Geometrically

1h 30m

Things in Categories—The Pigeonhole Tactic

1h 30m

Recasting Integers with Counting and Series

1h 30m

The Greatest Unifier of All—Invariants

1h 30m

Squarer Is Better—Optimizing 3s and 2s

1h 30m

Using Physical Intuition—and Imagination

1h 30m

Geometry and the Transformation Tactic

1h 30m

Building from Simple to Complex with Induction

1h 30m

Induction on a Grand Scale

1h 30m

A Relentless Tactic Solves a Very Hard Problem

1h 30m

Recasting Numbers as Polynomials—Weird Dice

1h 30m

Genius and Conway's Infinite Checkers Problem

1h 30m

How versus Why—The Final Frontier

1h 30m