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Perform a Gedanken: “What If?” and “So What?”t the actual experiment is too difficult or even impossible to perform. Many great discoveries are made with or start from a gedanken. Albert Einstein wondered how a light beam would look if he could travel right beside it, and this led to the development of special relativity. In 300 B.C., Euclid p

积习已深

Simulation and Optimizationments and carefully record the results. We have already suggested simulation when we discussed Problem 7.5, where different tennis players might have different probabilities of winning their games against different opponents, and we have to determine the probability of twins playing against each oth

迅速成长

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NOCT

,A Neighborhood War, 1861–1865, solve the right problem. When approaching puzzles, some people feel overwhelmed because they can’t even start on a path to a solution. We show you in this chapter that with some preparation and practice, most people will be able to make a good start on even the most (initially) overwhelming puzzles!

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,Präsentationstechnik/Rhetorik, possible solutions and the systematic elimination of solutions which are “wrong.” By repeating this process of elimination, we zoom in into the (usually relatively small) subset of possible solutions. This was one of the methods used frequently by Holmes, as seen in the opening quote!