A good problem should be more than a mere exercise; it should be challenging and not too easily solved by the student, and it should require some "dr….

Mathematics may be likened to a large rock whose interior composition we wish to examine. The older mathematicians appear as persevering stone cutter….

There is a distinction between what may be called a problem and what may be considered an exercise. The latter serves to drill a student in some tech….

It is impossible to overstate the imporance of problems in mathematics. It is by means of problems that mathematics develops and actually lifts itsel….

We call the slope of a line m because the word "slope" begins with the letter m..

One is hard pressed to think of universal customs that man has successfully established on earth. There is one, however, of which he can boast the un….

A formal manipulator in mathematics often experiences the discomforting feeling that his pencil surpasses him in intelligence..