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.


Self-Avoiding Walks, the language of science, and Fibonacci numbers. J. Stat. Inference and Planning, 54(1996), 135-138.

Doron Zeilberger Quotes

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...

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...

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...

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...