Talk:How to Solve It

message: Is this page still a stub?
How much do we need on what is really only ever going tobe a brief review of book to call it no longer a stub.
--Daniel.allen 20:32, 25 September 2005 (UTC)

message: That doesn't look very legal to me, what is the copyright status? I think it should be removed. --217.83.168.16 (talk) 17:45, 13 May 2014 (UTC)
replies: text: I have removed the link in question just in case. If it does not indeed violate Wikipedia's copyright policy, and it fits Wikipedia's content guidelines, feel free to include it.Rcrptmncr (talk) 21:42, 28 March 2015 (UTC)
thread_title:  PDF (External links) illegal 

message: The right-most column of the table in this section https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/How_to_Solve_It#Heuristics is interesting but looks like original research of some sort, at least the source is not cited.  
The third column was introduced quite a while ago (2006) by User:SheldonN: https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=How_to_Solve_It&oldid=40826817
Any idea where this came from?  As far as I can tell it's not the Pólya book... Arided (talk) 23:17, 30 January 2017 (UTC)
replies: text: Back in the 1980s, this kind of AI terminology was "in the air" in Silicon Valley, at least, so the 3rd column seemed like a small addition at least to me, when editor SheldonN added it. The terminology was very common then. I remember seeing many of the items in Nils Nilsson (1980), Principles of Artificial Intelligence from the 80s. Other well-known authors who I learned these things from, include Richard Duda and Peter Hart. --Ancheta Wis    (talk  | contribs) 01:18, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

text: It goes without saying that Polya came first. The application to AI was meant to make machines more intelligent (as I learned from Peter Hart). --Ancheta Wis    (talk  | contribs) 02:23, 31 January 2017 (UTC)

text: @Arided I agree. It's commentary, sometimes using language very different from the book itself that's very obviously from a much later decade. In fact I'd say Pólya goes to some lengths to avoid that kind of language. Musiconeologist (talk) 22:12, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
replies: text: I've tagged the column as potential OR. Maybe a compromise would be to delete that, but put the linked articles in a See also: section? Musiconeologist (talk) 22:51, 15 March 2024 (UTC)
thread_title:  "Formal Analogue" => massive [citation needed] 

message: Details about the four principles first appeared on October 21, 2009 and citations appeared later. However, in Wikipedia's article the restatement of the problem is mentioned with regard to the 1st principle, whereas in Polya's book (1957) it is mentioned with regard to the 2nd principle. The main questions, "What is the unknown? What are the data? What is the condition?" (1st principle) are not mentioned in the article neither is the strategy of thinking of a similar problem that has been solved in the past (2nd principle).  --Matr700 (talk) 00:56, 13 April 2018 (UTC)
thread_title:  Details about the four principles 

message: I removed this from the Influence section:
"* Russian physicist Zhores I. Alfyorov, (Nobel laureate in 2000) praised it, saying he was very pleased with Pólya's famous book."
When a math book sells a million copies, it is self evident that many people are pleased with it.  Influence would be something more specific, such as Polya's ideas being widely used in the teaching of physics. 73.89.25.252 (talk) 09:57, 24 January 2021 (UTC)
thread_title:  removing testimonial from Influence section