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Problem books — solving for understanding

A reading series · various

Working problems is how the ideas become mine. A running series of solved problems — the elegant, the brutal, and the ones that teach a whole method — drawn from the problem-book shelf.

0 of 4 chapters written · a chapter a day.

  1. 1Elementary but deep — Yaglom & Yaglomolympiad-style problems with hand-tool solutionsplanned
  2. 2Integrals that shouldn't be elementary — Vălean(Almost) Impossible Integrals, Sums, and Seriesplanned
  3. 3Modular forms by problem — Murty, Dewar & Gravesproblems that build the theoryplanned
  4. 4Method spotlightsone technique per post, distilled from a hard problemplanned