TRIZ and the Elusive Invention Machine

This book is an odd one. Is it written for children? Most of the text focuses on invention case studies that are presented like math-olympiad puzzles for precocious ten-year-olds. Altshuller eggs the reader on. A sixth grader can solve this; why can't you, dumbass? The English edition often reads like an excessively literal, amateurish translation. One problem, poorly titled "A and B Were Sitting…