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
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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
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...