> Practice, and read about similar puzzles/problems. Track down reprints/scans of Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games and similar publications. The entire set of the 15 books that collected his "Mathematical Games" columns from Scientific American are available in PDF form on a CD-ROM: http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Gardners-Mathematical-Games-Gar...
…Scientific American and it completely hooked me. This was 1963 and SA was then a great magazine. I read every current issue and then read the bound volumes of past issues. My favorite monthly columns were Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games and the Amateur Scientist. I read every one of those two columns ever published. The schools I attended were not very good, but I learned a lot of math and science during those years at the library.…
Practice, and read about similar puzzles/problems. Track down reprints/scans of Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games and similar publications. In general, for identifying if something is a graph problem: 1) Through some mapping, (almost?) everything can be transformed into a graph problem of some sort. Now, that's…
Maybe this won't be a popular opinion, but there are some non-CS-specific works that really helped cement some underlying principles. Namely, the fun stuff like "Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games" articles, "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Hofstadter, and "The Cyberiad" by Stanislaw Lem. These require a bit of thoughtfulness applied to relate to CS. And it was specifically worthwhile to actually work…
Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column that popularized this game also included a description of a variant: Brussels Sprouts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_(game)#Brussels_Sprouts), played with small crosses instead of dots.…
> 多加练习，并阅读类似谜题/问题的资料。去搜搜马丁·加德纳（Martin Gardner）《数学游戏》（Mathematical Games）及类似出版物的重印本/扫描件。收录了他在《科学美国人》上“Mathematical Games”专栏的全部 15 本书合集，现已有 CD-ROM 形式的 PDF 版：http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Gardners-Mathematical-Games-Gar...
> Practice, and read about similar puzzles/problems. Track down reprints/scans of Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games and similar publications. The entire set of the 15 books that collected his "Mathematical Games" columns from Scientific American are available in PDF form on a CD-ROM: http://www.amazon.com/Martin-Gardners-Mathematical-Games-Gar...
……《科学美国人》，彻底把我迷住了。那是 1963 年，SA 在当时是一本非常棒的杂志。我读了每一期新杂志，然后又把过刊的合订本全读了一遍。我每个月最喜欢的专栏是马丁·加德纳的“数学游戏”和“业余科学家”。这两个专栏发表过的每一篇我都读过。我念的学校不算好，但在图书馆度过的那些年里我学到了很多数学和科学知识。……
…Scientific American and it completely hooked me. This was 1963 and SA was then a great magazine. I read every current issue and then read the bound volumes of past issues. My favorite monthly columns were Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games and the Amateur Scientist. I read every one of those two columns ever published. The schools I attended were not very good, but I learned a lot of math and science during those years at the library.…
多加练习，并阅读类似谜题/问题的资料。去搜搜马丁·加德纳《数学游戏》（Mathematical Games）及类似出版物的重印本/扫描件。一般来说，要判断某个问题是不是图论问题：1）通过某种映射，（几乎？）所有东西都可以转化为某种图问题。不过话说回来……
Practice, and read about similar puzzles/problems. Track down reprints/scans of Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games and similar publications. In general, for identifying if something is a graph problem: 1) Through some mapping, (almost?) everything can be transformed into a graph problem of some sort. Now, that's…
也许这不是个主流观点，但确实有一些非 CS 专属的著作帮我巩固了一些底层原理。具体来说，就是那些好玩的内容，比如马丁·加德纳的《数学游戏》文章、侯世达（Hofstadter）的《哥德尔、艾舍尔、巴赫》，以及斯坦尼斯瓦夫·莱姆（Stanislaw Lem）的《机器人大师传》（The Cyberiad）。要把它们跟 CS 关联起来，需要稍微动动脑子深入琢磨一下。而且动手去实际推演……是非常值得的
Maybe this won't be a popular opinion, but there are some non-CS-specific works that really helped cement some underlying principles. Namely, the fun stuff like "Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games" articles, "Gödel, Escher, Bach" by Hofstadter, and "The Cyberiad" by Stanislaw Lem. These require a bit of thoughtfulness applied to relate to CS. And it was specifically worthwhile to actually work…
谢谢你分享自己的故事！今天下午晚点我打算去 Google 一下马丁·加德纳的《数学游戏》（Mathematical Games）！
Thank you for sharing your story! I am going to google Martin Gardner's Mathematical Games later this afternoon!
马丁·加德纳让这个游戏风靡起来的那期“Mathematical Games”专栏，还顺带介绍了一个变体：抱子甘蓝（Brussels Sprouts，http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_(game)#Brussels_Sprouts），游戏时用小十字代替圆点。……
Martin Gardner's "Mathematical Games" column that popularized this game also included a description of a variant: Brussels Sprouts (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sprouts_(game)#Brussels_Sprouts), played with small crosses instead of dots.…