Category Archives: Problem Solving

Research: role of problem creating

Physicist Michael Nielsen has an interesting insight into the creative process in research. He divides the creative process into two roles: problem solving and problem creating. He explains that the problem solver tries to solve well-posed, well-known difficult problems and … Read More »

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Problem Solving & Research: Advice from Descartes

Research in mathematical sciences and computer science is in many ways a matter of problem solving. One tries to use whatever tools one has to get one’s way round a problem. I was recently impressed by someone from the seventeenth … Read More »

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