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Chapter 1 Getting Started In Problem Solving
Section 1.: 21st Century Problem SolvingSection 1.: Lateral Thinking Questions
Section 1.: Make Your Own Cryptarithmetic
Section 1.: Cryptarithmetic
Section 1.: Problem Of The Week
Section 1.: Dilbert's Daily Mental Workout
Section 1.: Critical Thinking
Section 1.: Problem Solving Strategies
Chapter 2 The Monty Hall And Other Probabilistic Problems
Section 2.: Interactive Mathematics Miscellany And PuzzlesSection 2.: Some Statistics For EIA Test And Western Blot Test
Section 2.: Conditional Probability And Bayes' Theorem
Section 2.: Basic Probability Rules
Section 2.: The Infamous Monty Hall Problem
Chapter 3 Ben Franklin's Advice And Other Decision Strategies
Section 3.: Explanation Of Payoff MatricesSection 3.: Decision Trees
Section 3.: Payoff Matrix Problem
Section 3.: Decision Analysis Society
Chapter 4 Prisoner's Dilemma And Other Games
Section 4.: Social Dilemma Games And PuzzlesSection 4.: Indepth Introduction To The Ideas Of Game Theory
Section 4.: What Is Game Theory?
Section 4.: Game Theory Problems
Section 4.: The Prisoner's Dilemma
Chapter 5 The Knight's Tour And Other Graphs
Section 5.: Advanced Discussion On Eulerian And Hamiltonian GraphsSection 5.: Puzzles On Graphs
Section 5.: Introduction To Graph Theory And History Of Konigsberg Bridges Problem
Section 5.: Introduction To Graph Theory
Chapter 6 Visual Thinking - Symmetry And Patterns
Section 6.: The Golden RatioSection 6.: Symmetry In Tessellations
Section 6.: Wallpaper Groups: Introduction, Pictures, History
Section 6.: Fibonacci Numbers
Chapter 7 Plausible Reasoning
Section 7.: Using Truth TablesSection 7.: Logic In Language And Truth Tables
Chapter 8 Rational Or Irrational
Section 8.: The Escher MuseumSection 8.: Anecdotal Reports Of The Importance Of Visual Thinking
Section 8.: Visual Thinking
Section 8.: Integrating Problem Framing And Problem Solving
Chapter 9 Problems In Ethics
Section 9.: Notes On UtilitarianismSection 9.: Heuristic Problem Solving
Section 9.: Engineering Ethical Cases
Chapter 10 Advanced Problem Solving Topics
Section 10.: Introduction To Wallpaper PatternsSection 10.: Logic, Proof, and Science
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