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Re:The Science of Problem Solving by superflit on Thursday June 19, 2014 @08:50PM (#7919050)
It seems a lot like what the Russian Scientist Altshuller [1] did and modeled as TRIZ [2]

There is another one very useful scientist take on problem solving (more math related) : Mr. Polya [3]

[1] http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=3...

[2] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/TRIZ

[3] http://www.amazon.com/s/?_encoding=UTF8&camp=1789&creative=3...

Re:The Science of Problem Solving by yankoff on Friday June 20, 2014 @01:15AM (#7919604)
Altshuller is amazing, I'm surprised he is known outside of Russia though.
Re:The Science of Problem Solving by tomaskazemekas on Friday June 20, 2014 @06:15AM (#7920140)
Open Source TRIZ site has a collecion of freely available resourses on the methodology of inventive problem solving. http://www.opensourcetriz.com/main/page_ebooks.html
Re:The Science of Problem Solving by Surio on Friday June 20, 2014 @09:32AM (#7920599)
IIRC, GE runs workshops with TRIZ in all its R&D centres. Perhaps others too? But yes, that was the first time I heard about TRIZ too. :)