"How to Solve It" remains, even today, 45 years after its first writing, a very important work that profoundly influences anyone who reads it - and it was written precisely for this purpose: to change attitudes, habits, and opinions, to discuss old ideas on a new basis, to shed light on overlooked concepts, models, and strategies that have developed "underground" over thousands of years of human societal evolution.

As a text, it retains the vitality and freshness of a unique style. It seems to address both the teacher and the student simultaneously; in reality, it is read by any person with basic high school knowledge.

It is perhaps the most well-known book written to breathe life into these desperately monotonous and boring school lessons, showing us a way to "see" them differently.

(. . .) [Excerpt from the introduction of the edition]