Outline of Combinatorics - Problem Solving As An Art

Famous quotes containing the words problem, solving and/or art:

“You are a problem and rune,
you are mystery;
writ on a stone.”
—Hilda Doolittle (1886–1961)

“More than a decade after our fellow citizens began bedding down on the sidewalks, their problems continue to seem so intractable that we have begun to do psychologically what government has been incapable of doing programmatically. We bring the numbers down—not by solving the problem, but by deciding it’s their own damn fault.”
—Anna Quindlen (b. 1952)

“In one sense it is evident that the art of kingship does include the art of lawmaking. But the political ideal is not full authority for laws but rather full authority for a man who understands the art of kingship and has kingly ability.”
—Plato (428–348 B.C.)