Petrozavodsk: Scandinavia, 2004. — 131 s. "Would you play a nocturne on the flute of drain pipes?" /Vladimir Mayakovsky/Now few people know that in the postwar 1946, the aspiring 20-year-old inventor Heinrich Altshuller set himself a task that later became the meaning of his whole life: to learn how to manage creativity. Psychologists study people who have a creative gift . Altshuller, on the other hand, went his own way: he analyzed thousands of inventions .. And as a result of the analysis, it was possible to identify and formulate general patterns inherent in all inventive solutions and technical systems. Thus appeared TRIZ (the theory of solution of inventive tasks), TRTS (the theory of development of technical systems), and at the same time TRTL (the theory of development of creative personality) and TRTV (the theory of development of creative imagination). These technologies are now used all over the world .. Here is a book that tells about a new technology of creativity, in which the process of thinking is not chaotic, but organized and clearly controlled. How to read this book? (show), TRIZ is studied not only by engineers, but also by doctors, teachers, sociologists, biologists, journalists, entrepreneurs - all who have to solve creative tasks in their work I hope that among those who will read it, there will be people who will want to go further and search for new forms of management of creative thinking in technology, science, art. What could be more tempting than discovering the nature of talented thinking and turning such thinking from rare and unstable outbreaks into a powerful and controlled fire of knowledge!