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The Art of Problem SolvingBook

by Richard Rusczyk

Who uses, recommends or left The Art of Problem Solving, in their own words: each a verbatim quote with a link to where it was said.

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Grant Sanderson
Mathematician and creator of the 3Blue1Brown YouTube channel and the Manim animation library.
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The original Art of Problem Solving book by Richard Rusczyk, by the way, was one of the things that made me fall in love with creative math as a young student.

His Recommendations page, "Other places online to explore math", a companion to his book recommendations post. The page carries a footnote: "Some of the companies listed above have sponsored 3Blue1Brown videos in the past, but the recommendations here are not sponsored or advertisements in any way." He does not say which companies, so every commercial learning platform on the page is labelled as a disclosed relationship.

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Every entry is a verbatim quote and a link to the public post it came from. Nothing is paraphrased. If it is not on record somewhere public, it is not here.

The verdict is what they actually said: loved and liked are explicit; recommended means they told others to get it; uses means they only say they use it; read is a book on their public shelf with no verdict; mixed and disliked are kept too.

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