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This is a Tricki navigation page at the top level of generality. It contains links to other very general pages about different classes of mathematical problem and could therefore be a good start if you want help with a specific problem. Another route into the Tricki can be found [[Different kinds of Tricki article|on a companion page]], which is concerned not so much with classifying mathematical problems and more with classifying Tricki articles themselves.

===General articles about different kinds of problem===

[[Finding algorithms front page|Techniques for finding algorithms and algorithmic proofs]]

[[Approximation front page|Techniques for approximating one thing by another]]

[[Techniques for classifying mathematical structures]]

[[Techniques for comparing sets and mathematical structures]]

[[Techniques for counting]]

[[Equation-solving front page|Techniques for solving equations]]

[[Techniques for obtaining estimates]]

[[Existence proofs|Techniques for proving existence]]

[[Techniques for producing explicit examples]]

[[Proving equalities and identities|Techniques for proving equalities and identities]]

[[Impossibility and nonexistence front page|Techniques for proving impossibility and nonexistence]]

[[Techniques for proving inequalities]]

[[Techniques for maximizing and minimizing]]

[[Proving "for all" statements|Techniques for proving "for all" statements]]

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