The Equations World by Boris Pritsker
My rating: 4 of 5 stars
...On the surface, the flow of chapters and exercises make this appear to be a textbook. More accurately, the deep and narrow scope of each section server as thorough explanation on specific sub-topics perhaps as preparation for mathematical olympiads and similar contests. Fittingly for olympiad-level study, this work expects familiarity with intermediate topics. These are taken to a higher level, with a few new topics of the type seen in contests matched with highly developed problem-solving techniques and a near absence of application and theory. ...
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