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[ G.Polya ] Heuristic or heuretic, or "ars inveniendi" was the name of a certain branch of study, not very clearly circumscribed, belonging to logic, or to philosophy, or to psychology, often outlined, seldom presented in detail, and as good as forgotten today. The aim of heuristic is to study the methods and rules of discovery and invention. A few traces of such study may be found in the he commentators of Euclid; a passage of PAPPUS is particularity interesting in this respect. The most famous attempts to build up a system of heuristic are due to Descartes and to LIEBNITZ , both great mathematicians and philosophers. Bernard BOLZANO presented a notable detailed account of heuristic. The present booklet is an attempt to revive heuristic in a modern and modest form. See MODERN HEURISTIC . Heuristic, as an adjective, means "serving to discover"