Comments on: A page from the Hilbert playbook http://walterbender.org/?p=6 musing about things to think with Mon, 04 Feb 2013 16:34:24 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: SJ http://walterbender.org/?p=6&cpage=1#comment-42939 SJ Tue, 16 Feb 2010 20:09:51 +0000 http://walterbender.org/?p=6#comment-42939 This is a great exercise. The biggest difference b/t this and the Hilbert problems is that most of these are either too abstract to have a provable answer, or phrased in such a way that the answer is surely “Yes”. (the details of a really good answer being left to the sense of aesthetics of the reader/reviewer)

Perhaps as a first set of meta-problems one could suggest: write a provably solvable challenge addressing each of these 23 topics, with footnotes and explanations if necessary.

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