When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea t… - Doron Zeilberger

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When a problem seems intractable, it is often a good idea to try to study "toy" versions of it in the hope that as the toys become increasingly larger and more sophisticated, they would metamorphose, in the limit, to the real thing.

Doron Zeilberger

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Doron Zeilberger (דורון ציילברגר; born July 2, 1950, in Israel) is an Israeli mathematician, known for his work in combinatorics.

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