Creativity As an Exact Science

by G.S. Altshuller

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780677212302
Publisher:	Taylor & Francis
Publication date:	01/16/1984
Series:	Studies in Cybernetics , #5
Pages:	334
Product dimensions:	6.12(w) x 9.19(h) x (d)
Age Range:	18 Years

About the Author

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

Table of Contents

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 Invention