How to Solve It

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How to Solve It

Quality:

How to Solve It - book about problem solving. This book is the 3516th most popular in the global Wikipedia ranking of books. Article "How to Solve It" in English Wikipedia has 41.3 points for quality (as of July 1, 2025). The article contains 31 references and 11 sections. The article also contains quality flaw template, which reduce quality score.

This article has the best quality in Esperanto Wikipedia. However, this article is the most popular in English version.

Achievements in all the time:
Global Wikipedia:
The 3516th most popular in books.

Since the creation of article "How to Solve It", its content was written by 86 registered users of English Wikipedia and edited by 166 registered Wikipedia users in all languages.

How to Solve It is on the 3516th place in global ranking of books on Wikipedia in all the time.

The article is cited 22 times in English Wikipedia and cited 67 times in all languages.

The highest Authors Interest rank from 2001:

  • Local (English): #8828 in December 2003
  • Global: #23155 in December 2003

The highest popularity rank from 2008:

  • Local (English): #86695 in February 2012
  • Global: #142652 in February 2012

There are 12 language versions for this article in the WikiRank database (of the considered 55 Wikipedia language editions).

The quality and popularity assessment was based on Wikipédia dumps from July 1, 2025 (including revision history and pageviews for previous years).

The table below shows the language versions of the article with the highest quality.

Languages with the highest quality

#LanguageQuality gradeQuality score
1Esperanto (eo)
How to solve it
50.9749
2Polish (pl)
Etapy rozwiązywania zadań matematycznych według Pólyi
50.4488
3English (en)
How to Solve It
41.2688
4Catalan (ca)
How to solve it
40.6635
5French (fr)
Comment poser et résoudre un problème
32.8222
6Japanese (ja)
いかにして問題をとくか
31.481
7Portuguese (pt)
How to Solve It
25.6253
8Chinese (zh)
怎样解题
17.725
9Finnish (fi)
Ratkaisemisen taito
15.5358
10Ukrainian (uk)
Як розв'язувати задачу
14.8431
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The following table shows the most popular language versions of the article.

Most popular in all the time

The most popular language versions of the article "How to Solve It" in all the time
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
How to Solve It
1 244 766
2Spanish (es)
Cómo plantear y resolver problemas
226 934
3Chinese (zh)
怎样解题
17 315
4Polish (pl)
Etapy rozwiązywania zadań matematycznych według Pólyi
14 502
5Arabic (ar)
البحث عن الحل
13 731
6Japanese (ja)
いかにして問題をとくか
12 823
7Portuguese (pt)
How to Solve It
10 516
8Ukrainian (uk)
Як розв'язувати задачу
10 448
9Finnish (fi)
Ratkaisemisen taito
5 129
10French (fr)
Comment poser et résoudre un problème
1 060
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest popularity in the last month.

Most popular in June 2025

The most popular language versions of the article "How to Solve It" in June 2025
#LanguagePopularity awardRelative popularity
1English (en)
How to Solve It
5 296
2Japanese (ja)
いかにして問題をとくか
329
3Spanish (es)
Cómo plantear y resolver problemas
310
4Chinese (zh)
怎样解题
150
5French (fr)
Comment poser et résoudre un problème
99
6Polish (pl)
Etapy rozwiązywania zadań matematycznych według Pólyi
98
7Portuguese (pt)
How to Solve It
85
8Finnish (fi)
Ratkaisemisen taito
60
9Catalan (ca)
How to solve it
45
10Arabic (ar)
البحث عن الحل
42
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest.

The highest AI

Language versions of the article "How to Solve It" with the highest Authors Interest (number of authors). Only registered Wikipedia users were taken into account.
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1English (en)
How to Solve It
86
2Spanish (es)
Cómo plantear y resolver problemas
17
3Arabic (ar)
البحث عن الحل
12
4Ukrainian (uk)
Як розв'язувати задачу
9
5Finnish (fi)
Ratkaisemisen taito
8
6Polish (pl)
Etapy rozwiązywania zadań matematycznych według Pólyi
8
7French (fr)
Comment poser et résoudre un problème
7
8Esperanto (eo)
How to solve it
5
9Japanese (ja)
いかにして問題をとくか
5
10Chinese (zh)
怎样解题
5
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest Authors’ Interest in the last month.

The highest AI in June 2025

Language versions of the article "How to Solve It" with the highest AI in June 2025
#LanguageAI awardRelative AI
1Arabic (ar)
البحث عن الحل
0
2Catalan (ca)
How to solve it
0
3English (en)
How to Solve It
0
4Esperanto (eo)
How to solve it
0
5Spanish (es)
Cómo plantear y resolver problemas
0
6Finnish (fi)
Ratkaisemisen taito
0
7French (fr)
Comment poser et résoudre un problème
0
8Japanese (ja)
いかにして問題をとくか
0
9Polish (pl)
Etapy rozwiązywania zadań matematycznych według Pólyi
0
10Portuguese (pt)
How to Solve It
0
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The following table shows the language versions of the article with the highest number of citations.

The highest CI

Language versions of the article "How to Solve It" with the highest Citation Index (CI)
#LanguageCI awardRelative CI
1English (en)
How to Solve It
22
2Spanish (es)
Cómo plantear y resolver problemas
11
3Chinese (zh)
怎样解题
9
4Arabic (ar)
البحث عن الحل
6
5Portuguese (pt)
How to Solve It
5
6Esperanto (eo)
How to solve it
3
7Finnish (fi)
Ratkaisemisen taito
3
8Ukrainian (uk)
Як розв'язувати задачу
3
9Japanese (ja)
いかにして問題をとくか
2
10Catalan (ca)
How to solve it
1
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Scores

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Citations:
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Quality measures

Interwikis

#LanguageValue
arArabic
البحث عن الحل
caCatalan
How to solve it
enEnglish
How to Solve It
eoEsperanto
How to solve it
esSpanish
Cómo plantear y resolver problemas
fiFinnish
Ratkaisemisen taito
frFrench
Comment poser et résoudre un problème
jaJapanese
いかにして問題をとくか
plPolish
Etapy rozwiązywania zadań matematycznych według Pólyi
ptPortuguese
How to Solve It
ukUkrainian
Як розв'язувати задачу
zhChinese
怎样解题

Popularity rank trends

Best Rank English:
#86695
02.2012
Global:
#142652
02.2012

AI rank trends

Best Rank English:
#8828
12.2003
Global:
#23155
12.2003

Local AI rank history

Languages comparison

Important global interconnections (July 2024 – June 2025)

Wikipedia readers most often find their way to information on How to Solve It from Wikipedia articles about George Pólya, Heuristic, Problem solving, Decomposition and Imre Lakatos. Whereas reading the article about How to Solve It people most often go to Wikipedia articles on George Pólya, How to Solve it by Computer, Inventors paradox, Theory of inventive problem solving and Heuristic.

Cumulative results of quality and popularity of the Wikipedia article

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