“If you cannot solve the proposed problem try to solve first some related problem.”
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Famous George Polya Quotes
“If there is a problem you can't solve, then there is an easier problem you can't solve: find it.”
Source: Mathematical Discovery
“A GREAT discovery solves a great problem but there is a grain of discovery in any problem.”
Source: How to solve it: a new aspect of mathematical method
“It is better to solve one problem five different ways, than to solve five problems one way.”
“In order to solve this differential equation you look at it until a solution occurs to you.”