Outline of Combinatorics - Problem Solving As An Art

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“The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.”
—Flannery O’Connor (1925–1964)

“You are right to demand that an artist engage his work consciously, but you confuse two different things: solving the problem and correctly posing the question.”
—Anton Pavlovich Chekhov (1860–1904)

“I never meant to deny the moral impact of art which is certainly inherent in every genuine work of art. What I do deny and am prepared to fight to the last drop of my ink is the deliberate moralizing which to me kills every vestige of art in a work however skillfully written.”
—Vladimir Nabokov (1899–1977)