Creativity As an Exact Science [Hardcover]

This book discusses the principles of controlling thinking in the solution of inventive problems that are transposed to the organization of creative thinking in any sphere of human activity. It is aimed at the engineer and also comprehensible to people who do not work with technology.1. On the Road to a Theory of Creativity 2. Principles of S-Field Analysis 3. Tactics of Invention: Managing the Process of Task Solving 4. Talented Thought: What is it? 5. Forty Basic Methods 6. From Simple to Complex Methods 7. The Strategy of Invention: Controlling the Presentation of Problems 8. The Science of InventionThis book discusses the principles of controlling thinking in the solution of inventive problems that are transposed to the organization of creative thinking in any sphere of human activity. It is aimed at the engineer and also comprehensible to people who do not work with technology.

G.S. Altshuller is the author of the Foundations of Invention and Algorithms of Invention.

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