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  • Approximation front page

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  • Clarify your problem by making it more abstract

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  • If an argument looks promising but needs a hypothesis, assume the hypothesis for now but try to remove it later
  • If you don't know how to make a decision, then don't make it

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  • Look at small cases

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  • Simplify your problem by generalizing it
  • Strengthen your inductive hypothesis

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  • Think axiomatically even about concrete objects
  • To understand an object, consider treating it as one of a family of objects and analysing the family
  • Try to prove a stronger result