📚 Problem Solving

Books with problem solving on their catalogue record, first published between 1881 and 2019, ordered by how many editions are in print.

Below are the 30 works carrying the subject problem solving in the Open Library catalogue with the most editions in print, out of the 6,221 works the catalogue holds under that subject. Author and first year are as the record states them; a missing year means the record does not carry one, not that the book is undated. Novels set in the subject are left out, because a list of historical fiction is not a list of history. Where one author dominates the reprint counts, no more than two of their titles appear.

Cover	Title	Author	First published	Editions
	Mathematical discovery	George Pólya	1962	24
	Thinking course	Edward de Bono	1982	24
	Lateral thinking: creativity step by step	Edward de Bono	1970	23
	Creative problem solving for managers	Tony Proctor	1999	21
	Elementary lessons in electricity & magnetism	Silvanus Phillips Thompson	1881	15
	Problem Solving with C++	Walter Savitch	2003	14
	There's a Spiritual Solution to Every Problem	Wayne W. Dyer	1975	13
	Figuring	Shakuntala Devi	1977	13
	Problem-solving in organizations	Joan Ernst van Aken	2002	13
	Quantitative reasoning	Alicia Sevilla	2007	13
	Algorithms to Live By	Brian Christian	2016	11
	Problem-solving therapy	Jay Haley	1976	10
	A problem solving approach to mathematics for elementary school teachers	Rick Billstein	1981	10
	The Somerset Thinking Skills Course	Nigel Blagg	1988	10
	Art of Problem Posing	Stephen I. Brown	2004	10
	Problem solving and programming concepts	Maureen Sprankle	1989	9
	Sprint	Jake Knapp	2001	9
	Think you can think?	Minesh Tanna	2011	9
	Developmental Mathematics	Margaret L. Lial	2007	8
	How To	Randall Munroe	2019	8
	On problem-solving	Karl Duncker	1945	7
	Social conflict	Dean G. Pruitt	1986	7
	Data structures & problem solving using Java	Mark Allen Weiss	1998	7
	How to Think Like Einstein	Scott Thorpe	2000	7
	Crossing the River with Dogs	Ken Johnson	2008	7
	The Art and Craft of Problem Solving	Paul Zeitz	1999	6
	Horary Astrology	Marc Edmund Jones	1975	5
	Strategies for creative problem solving	H. Scott Fogler	1995	5
	Mathematical thinking	John P. D'Angelo	1996	5
	QBQ! The Question Behind the Question	John G. Miller	2001	5

List built from Open Library (CC0 metadata) · retrieved 24 Oct 2026 UTC · capped at 30 works per subject.

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