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How to Be Creative: A Practical Guide for the Mathematical Sciences
Do you know precisely how your creativity happens? Can you coach other people to be more creative? This book is a how-to guide focused on helping you to generate great—or even greater—ideas by showing you “how to do it” and how to teach others how to do it, too.
Written specifically for those working in the mathematical sciences, this book provides a proven process for idea generation and a wide range of mathematically oriented examples. Building on the authors’ many years of experience running creativity workshops, How to Be Creative: A Practical Guide for the Mathematical Sciences
• gives a six-step process for generating great ideas that can be used by individuals or groups,
• provides examples demonstrating how these concepts have been or might be used in practice in the mathematical sciences,
• presents seven tried and tested briefs that can be used at creativity workshops, and
• offers guidance on how to evaluate ideas wisely and how to build a team culture in which creativity flourishes.
Written specifically for those working in the mathematical sciences, this book provides a proven process for idea generation and a wide range of mathematically oriented examples. Building on the authors’ many years of experience running creativity workshops, How to Be Creative: A Practical Guide for the Mathematical Sciences
• gives a six-step process for generating great ideas that can be used by individuals or groups,
• provides examples demonstrating how these concepts have been or might be used in practice in the mathematical sciences,
• presents seven tried and tested briefs that can be used at creativity workshops, and
• offers guidance on how to evaluate ideas wisely and how to build a team culture in which creativity flourishes.
- GenresMathematicsSelf Help
109 pages, Paperback
Published April 29, 2022
17 people want to read
About the author
Nicholas J. Higham
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Nicholas John Higham FRS is a numerical analyst and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester.
He is a graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester gaining his BA in 1982, MSc in and 1983 and PhD 1985. His PhD thesis was entitled Nearness Problems in Numerical Linear Algebra and his supervisor was George Hall. Higham is Director of Research within the School of Mathematics, Director of the Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences (MIMS), and Head of the Numerical Analysis Group. He held a prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2003–2008) and as of 2006[update] is on the Institute for Scientific Information Highly Cited Researcher list.
Nicholas John Higham FRS is a numerical analyst and Richardson Professor of Applied Mathematics at the School of Mathematics, University of Manchester.
He is a graduate of the Victoria University of Manchester gaining his BA in 1982, MSc in and 1983 and PhD 1985. His PhD thesis was entitled Nearness Problems in Numerical Linear Algebra and his supervisor was George Hall. Higham is Director of Research within the School of Mathematics, Director of the Manchester Institute for Mathematical Sciences (MIMS), and Head of the Numerical Analysis Group. He held a prestigious Royal Society Wolfson Research Merit Award (2003–2008) and as of 2006[update] is on the Institute for Scientific Information Highly Cited Researcher list.
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January 12, 2023
Short book with straightforward and concrete suggestions. Worth the read.
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