top | item 43289594 (no title) techwizrd | 1 year ago Is this quote real? I'm familiar with George Pólya's, "If you cannot solve the proposed problem, try to solve first a simpler related problem" but I cannot find any source for the Lenstra quote. discuss order hn newest gessha|11 months ago I also found it connected to Polya [1]https://www.pleacher.com/mp/mquotes/mobquote.html v1t|11 months ago yeah https://www.reddit.com/r/quotes/comments/16qgwcv/if_you_cant... isaacfrond|11 months ago I’ve heard him say it myself in a lecture on the AKS primality test. So, ehh, the source is oral tradition I guess.
gessha|11 months ago I also found it connected to Polya [1]https://www.pleacher.com/mp/mquotes/mobquote.html
isaacfrond|11 months ago I’ve heard him say it myself in a lecture on the AKS primality test. So, ehh, the source is oral tradition I guess.
gessha|11 months ago
https://www.pleacher.com/mp/mquotes/mobquote.html
v1t|11 months ago
isaacfrond|11 months ago