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• wly_cdgr · May 30, 2022 · Recommends

  …other resources: * Gelfand (et al.)'s HS math book series: System of Coordinates, Functions And Graphs, Algebra, Geometry, Trigonometry * The problem collections Challenging Problems in Geometry and Challenging Problems in Algebra, available from Dover * The math and logic courses on Brilliant.org * Smullyan's Introduction to Logic * Balakrishnan's Introduction to Discrete Mathematics * For a bracingly irreverent "skip the…

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• dhosek · Sep 30, 2026 · Mentions

  …Nick Hornby, Diaries by Franz Kafka, A Different Kind of Tension by Jonathan Lethem, A Writer’s Notebook by W. Somerset Maugham, The Magician’s Wife by Brian Moore, Father Elijah by Michael D. O’Brien, Challenging Problems in Algebra by Posamentier/Salkind, Cuentos by Alonso Reyes, All the Names They Used for God by Anjali Sachdeva, Great American Desert by Terese Svoboda, A Silent Treatment by Jeanine Vanasco and The Writer’s Notebook:…

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• newprint · Aug 5, 2019 · Mentions

  …preparation, there are websites completely devoted to Olympiads, there are freely available problems sets (with complete solutions). To name the few: Hungarian Problem Books, Problem-Solving Strategies, Challenging Problems in Algebra, books by Titu Andreescu - a former US IMO coach, who published a lot of books on math and IMO prep, http://www.cut-the-knot.org/

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• lovehashbrowns · Aug 5, 2019 · Mentions

  Thank you for your suggestions. I purchased Challenging Problems in Algebra and a text book by Titu Andreescu. Looking at the kinds of problems in Olympiad, it seems like they'd actually be helpful and more fun to solve.

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