Comment by leosanchez
3 months ago
Since this is still on HN frontpage. Does anyone suggest any math books to help solve these problems. I am pretty sure you can't solve problems above 50 without strong maths background.
3 months ago
Since this is still on HN frontpage. Does anyone suggest any math books to help solve these problems. I am pretty sure you can't solve problems above 50 without strong maths background.
Concrete Mathematics is probably the best single book that you could read to prepare you for some the problems beyond the first 50. It’s extremely fun, and also mathematically serious. A large portion of PE problems are exactly in the cross sections of number theory, combinatorics, and computation that is covered in this book.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concrete_Mathematics