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Anatomy of “You could have invented…”

The You could have invented... article follows a particular scheme: Introduce an easy to understand problem, Attempt to solve the problem, but get stuck doing it the "obvious" way, Introduce an easy to understand insight, Methodically work out the rest of the details, arriving at the final result. Why does framing the problem this way […]

  • February 23, 2012