Semyon D. SAVRANSKY
Engineering of Creativity:
Introduction to TRIZ Methodology of Inventive Problem Solving
(First Edition: September 2000, 394 pages, English)

The book represents survey of TRIZ research conducted during the last 40 years. The book is the first serious, comprehensive and updated source of information about TRIZ based on the Altshuller’s ideas, the author's results, implimentations of several author's TRIZ projects in Silicon Valley (USA) and USSR, the publications in the Russian Journal of TRIZ, the manuscripts of TRIZniks’ works collected in the Chelyabinsk Fond of TRIZ (Russia), and the papers at TRIZ conferences in USA and around the globe. At the first time Western readers become familiar with more than 100 new heuristics unpublished previously in English.The book can be used as a handbook of TRIZ and textbook for colleges. "Engineering of Creativity" is the only book to approach the topic from a scientific and engineering vantage point.
The book contents:
INTRODUCTION
PART 1: PROBLEM SOLVING AIDS
Chapter 1 How Do We Solve Problems?
Chapter 2 TRIZ Overview
PART 2: MAIN TRIZ CONCEPTS
Chapter 3 Technique: A Resume
Chapter 4 Contradictions
Chapter 5 Ideality
Chapter 6 Substance-Field Resources
Chapter 7 Evolution of Technique
PART 3: TRIZ INFORMATION
Chapter 8 Inventions
Chapter 9 Effects
PART 4: PREPARATIONS TO PROBLEM SOLVING
Chapter 10 Before Start
Chapter 11 Inventivity
Chapter 12 Su-Fields
PART 5: TRIZ HEURISTICS AND INSTRUMENTS
Chapter 13 Resolution of Pair (Technical) Contradictions
Chapter 14 Point (Physical) Contradictions: Ontology and Resolution
Chapter 15 Standard Solutions of Invention Problems
Chapter 16 Energy Synthesis of Systems
Chapter 17 Agents Method
Chapter 18 ARIZ
CONCLUSION
9 APPENDIXES
REFERENCES
You will receive book with the author signature and free bonus diskette with the extended Matrix, the list of few errors in the book and a volume of Selected Works for TRIZniks!